Now, aside from 'cracker's' blatant copy & paste (with a slight reword) work..

If people read the first link I posted (rather than the 'most damning' *you know that's what interested you most*), you would see that the purposes of disabling Norton 2001 AV are rather limited...

The main reason you would want to, as listed in the first article, is if you were writing a virus.. disabling Norton 2001 would probably be a good ability for your virus to have... I mean, Symantec is a commonly know software company among standard users... so it would be fair to say that many people use 2001.....

Now, a techie reason...
This one strains it....
Policies in place... restricting closing of AV software... still have registry access.... AV software is interfering with an install of a required program... need to get rid of AV software for short period of time...

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These statements are hardly straining my imagination.. I could think of lots of reasons to disable an AV.. like this one.. once when trying to update an AV... the AV update was detected by the Scanner as containing virus's.. (lots of them too.. strange that for a definition update..)
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