Wow, I leave for dinner, come back and have a flood of comments. Luckily, The Doctor76 was on duty to handle the epidemic, so thanks to Doctor76 for that
You saved me a lot of typing lol.
As for the 3 limit installation mentioned by Soulfire777, from what I've heard, apparantly they have increased the limit to 5 installations....even still though, as you say, its gonna be a right pain in the *** for me as I plan on playing this for decades to come ^^
And as for Doctors comment on Norton 360 being...well...quite frankly a pile of steaming poo...I totally agree with everything you said. My laptop was epically fast when I got it, put Norton on there and it is one sloooooow *beep* now lol.
For anyone out there who is considering anti-virus and firewall software, I've invested in a tiny gadget called a Yoggie stick....it basically looks like a normal flash drive/memory stick, but is literally a computer in itself.
Each time you start your computer, it updates itself, it doesn't slow your computer down in the slightest as everything is ont he stick and uses the least cpu usage as technically possible.
There are however two penalties to Yoggie:
1) It's quite expensive to buy in the first place...although I got mine for £60
2) I think you need to pay a subscription......not sure though cos my dad handles all the bills :P
Basically, I'm not going to ramble on about Yoggie any more cos this post is turning in to a flippin advert lol, but if anyone is interested in it some more, pm me and I'll pm you back with more info.
Either way, Yoggie will still not protect you from the SecuROM though 