At the end of the day, we’re all nice guys at heart who don’t mind a puzzle or two. ;)

As the Joker once said, “If you’re good at something, don’t do it for free!” :D

Seems like Norton is the phishing product in the first place. It takes people’s money every year for “subscriptions” while no longer “protecting” them. Sounds like a protection racket to me. Guess the money gleaned from these “subscriptions” goes into marketing rather than development at Norton.

Ah, Norton. That brings me back to a time filled with slowness and nags everywhere.

I remember that a couple years ago a friend of my mother’s had some version of Norton installed (just the Antivirus, if I recall correctly), and its “Full System Scan” was impossible to stop:
The Antivirus would start it, showing a windows with the file names flying by. He would then click [stop], but all it did was stopping the filename change; the system scan would continue to be done in the background, slowing the system to a crawl.
His solution was killing the process manually :|

The worst part is that it didn’t prevent him from being infected with a virus sent from a friends computer!

By the way, Luke, I think you have a typo:

a computer that was made at the begging of the bronze age

Isn’t it always the stuff you do for free that’s the most time consuming or the biggest pain in the ass? I think I’m with you, nothing for free anymore.