[Swordmaker]

I agree about their current bloat, and I don't doubt this happened - but it begs the question. Why would they fire all their original programmers?

My recollection is that Symantec was taken over by another company when they went into the Windows market... and it was felt that Macintosh oriented programmers couldn't do the job...

On the other hand, my recollector could be on the fritz...

[clyde asbury]

Well, that certainly sounds plausible. In the early 1990s around the time Windows 3.0 was released, Norton Utilities was a genuine improvement over just plain MS-DOS. They even added the Unix-like free command. I wasn't aware Norton was working with Macintosh at that time.

Using Norton Anti-virus for the first time a year ago, it was obvious the program was a resource hog particularly when compared to AVG and Antivir.