Reply to "To The Admins of TVT"

I feel that I should clarify something here... Norton did not in the past nor does it now involve insert itself into the BIOS. You see, Norton is a Windows product and is loaded long after the BIOS loads. The BIOS initializes things on your computer (consider it starting the car) long before Windows loads. As well, most BIOS's are very small - 4 Megabytes in size, give or take. Since Norton is a huge beast of a product as far as hard drive size goes, it's not possible to fit it into a 4 MB BIOS. Likewise, it's almost impossible to believe that it is loaded by BIOS but the rest of it is called from the hard drive long before the hard drive is able to be used, then starts calling all kinds of DLL files and supporting stuff which are Windows binaries when Windows isn't running. It's theoretically possible but only in theory - nobody is going to spend the kind of time it would take to figure out how to do so for so little benefit when you can simply scan resident memory, hard drives, and then check for BIOS corruption against a cloned mirror copy of the BIOS you had when you installed Norton if you just let Windows boot up. I don't hold it against you for having this misconception as it was pretty popular a few years ago to believe this, and frankly we can't all understand computers intimately. I just wanted to inform you of the reality of things. Still, I applaud you for ditching Norton as it is now a pay per year model and is a massive beast that eats system capacity alive for breakfast.