i can'T really answer that, but my experience was the same .... it happened a year ago or so, when it deleted my external firewire (160gb) with, of course also my backups .... the only norton thing i use - if - is anti virus and even this is a buggy one sometimes ..... maybe someone knows a better story =) On May 6, 2004, at 1:27 PM, khyber courchesne wrote: > The admin in my office just bought Norton Utilities for OSX....My last > experience with it around OSX 10.1 was that it totally destroyed my > computer > and I had to reinstall all my data and the OS. > > Has Norton improved, or is it still a dangerous suite?