i haven't had anything to say because you're on about free cr*p and rips which naturally I won't touch with someone else's

officer.
I've recently abandoned NIS because I find that good firewall though it is, it uses up a lot of memory and chucks a lot of dll's in at startup. I also find that the ccapp common client registers fook up just a bit too often for my liking, so I use Zone Alarm Pro (paid for) and it gives me a lot more control over my network, and is somewhat easier on memory usage. Just a preference on my part, I have no major critiicsms of the Norton product.