I hope other software venders look at RealAmp as an object lesson. 10--15 years after their "take over the computer" days, people are still gun-shy about them. They seem to be behaving themselves these days, but I was very nervous about putting it into my computer this time around.

Re: Norton. I haven't played with them in 10 years or so, but the last time I did Norton brought my computer to a crawl and took over everything. It will be a long time before I ever allow Symantec near my computer again. I remember the "good old days" when Peter Norton was Norton Utilities and there was nothing out there even remotely as good.

"Good old Days"... ah, yes, manually parsing IRQs and DMAs, restructuring the start-up order to maximize memory use efficiency, a big word-processing program would be about 10 megabytes and come on eight floppy-disks and take an hour and a half to install and configure. I'm telling you, this GUI stuff is just a passing fad, and it'll only be a matter of time before we get back to real computing and the ever-useful and friendly C:> prompt!

tanstaafl.