Hi Dick, cheers for your quick reply,
I will accept that in your experience you have never had to question Symantec's ethics, and that is how it should be because if you can't trust a computer security company to keep your computer secure and not pull stunts then we all should just all give up and/or devise our own computer security strategy.
I guess I'm just a bit jumpy because a lot of the institutions we used to trust have failed us so badly, i.e. Banks that go out of their way to scam their customers, churches covering up their evil practices and so on, it just makes you wonder about what other bomb-shell is going to hit us.
Possibly, the words "faith and trust" should now just mean "sucker".
(The cynical) UK Bob