My second install appears to be much better than the first one. The first scan on the second install found 4 tracking cookies which the original installation didn't report. Shutdown also back to what it was previously, ie circa 10 seconds. No errors being reported and my Internet connection seems to be stable once more. Clearly Symantec have made some improvements over the past week or so. I'm now going to play around a bit with some of the other bits I am not so familiar with. Wish me luck.

F.E, in the last couple of days this version of Norton has decided that about 5 drivers have been infected by a Heuristic Virus and decided that it was best to delete them.

Unfortunalty my wife was working on the PC at the time when the warning came up and decided to follow the advice to delete the files.

Any way to cut a long story short there was no infection but now I have no drivers for sound card, DVD Burner, printer and scanner, it's also decided that any thing I download is now a secrity concern and and has no knowledge that any of the files I try to download are safe, it's also asking to delete another couple of files because they may contain a virus.

I have run 3 different scans from other anti virus software and also a deep scan from Norton, all with the same result, no infections.

I think I may have to do a clean install to put matters right but thats the way with Beta versions, you never know what will happen.

If my spelling is not perfect it's because it's now decided that the spell checker is not safe.