I so love it when software decides that it knows better than I do about what I want. It’s as if it says “He turned that off, but he didn’t really mean it, so I will turn it back on because that is what I think is best.”

Case in point is Norton Antivirus 2006. In the installer you have the option to select if you would like to enable Internet Worm Protection, which disables the windows firewall and uses the Norton product instead. Because of the computer systems that I am working on, it wouldn’t make any sense to use Norton’s Internet Worm Protection, so I went ahead and unchecked the box in the installer/configurator. After rebooting, guess what, Internet Worm Protection has been re-enabled. The Norton installer, in all it’s wisdom (read heavy sarcasm), decided that Internet Worm Protection should be enabled, regardless of what I told it to do in the configurator. I think this is really moronic, because if I tell something to stay off, it should just stay off!