People might not agree with me, but Norton, cough cough!!!!!!!

But did you know, the program has access to key areas of Vista including the Kernel since SP1 came out.

Symantec seems to think they can do a better job than Microsoft at protecting the key areas of Vista it has access too. What happened, in the United States, was that Symantec and McAfee started whining about not having access to those key areas, and were on the verge of whining to the U.S. DOJ, and if that would have happened, Microsoft would have been, for lack of better terminology hung out to dry, possibly. Microsoft eventually gave in to the whiner's at Symantec and McAfee and allowed those programs access to those key areas starting with Service Pack 1. Ever since this happened, I have no faith in Symantec or it's Norton Products.

This is not good, as the way Microsoft had things set up with Vista, was that absolutely no antivirus or internet security program would not have access to those key areas of Vista, and those two companies would have to completely rewrite there programs to make them Vista compatible, and the companies mentioned decided one day, no way were they going to do that, so they started whining and got their way about getting access to key areas of Vista, as a result with Service Pack 1, anyone running at Symantec of McAfee product, probably isn't as secure as both those companies would have the sheeple believe.

This is why my Vista 64 SP1 rig is as stable as I've gotten, I will not run a Norton or McAffee product on my system.

I had problems with speed with Norton and Mcafee. running vista x64 home premium.
A fellow in CA. put me on to using Avast. this is free for home users. the co. has very
good reports in pc mag. and others on reviews. they have been in business since 1988.
might want to check it out.
Larry

Microsoft and Symantec are both delusional on how to protect our computers. Why not fix the OS and get rid of all the extra crap.