Norton and Microsoft hate each other (still)

So I come back from two weeks on vacation and boot up one of my home desktops, a Sony Vaio. Everyone wants to update. Fer Chrissakes, it has been two weeks since we have seen our daddy! What a bunch of children these programs are. Usually thes update run smooth. But this time Norton tried to pull a fast one. I switched from the Norton personal firewall to the Microsoft XP firewall about six months ago. When Symentac went out to update it’s virus files (expected) it also turned back on the Norton firewall without any warning. Well, ok, i can’t say for sure there was no warning as I was just clicking through the screens as fast as possible since every program wanted to update itself. They could have stuck it in somewhere, but I didn’t notice. Half an hour later my machine froze. The keyboard and mouse stopped working. The system clock in the lower right was stuck on 4:34pm. No amount of pounding on the screen changed anything. I lost a two page blog entry in the hard reboot. I figured it was a fluke so I didn’t change anything. After dinner it froze again at 7:13pm. I disabled the Norton Firewall and installed WebRoot SpySweeper just for good measure. But it was Norton and Microsoft fighting it out I am sure.