1 Was this because Norton was blocking ports ? I can't imagine why it would block the config page. Obviously a security risk ! Another one of those Twilight Zone bizarro things, huh.

2 Actually, it doesn't block the ports, it blocks part of the web pages the modem generates. Which makes it kind of hard to work out what the problem is.

3 Ugh. I just spent an afternoon rooting the thing out of my parents' new computer. It came pre-installed with a 90-day subscription - but I have free software that I use for all of its functions. OK, so: Add/Remove Programs? It ain't there. Program Files? No Uninstall or Setup. Right, Google: sure enough, there is an uninstall program that you can download from Symantec. Download, run, reboot, problems, debug: the GUI is gone, but the services and processes are still there! Whisky Tango Foxtrot? I ended up knee-deep in registry keys, but I finally nailed the nasty thing. The uninstall program is apparently designed to work that way - everyone I know who has tried it had the same issue. Simply evil.

4 I used to work with a guy who came into my office complaining that his MAC kept crashing all day. I went to his office and found that he had every little bit of Norton for the MAC installed. I removed all of it. Two days later he came to me and said that all of his Norton Utilities were missing. I asked him if he had been crashing. He said he hadn't since I fixed it. I explained that Norton was the source of the problem. Four days later he came back to complain that the constant crashes had returned. I checked his system and sure enough he had re-installed Norton. I explained to him that Norton was causing the crashes but he said he liked Norton. So I told him to stop complaining. I cherish the day he quit.