Hand-to-hand combat with your PC -- A Rant

So the problem I mentioned a few days ago regarding Yahoo frustrations has blossomed into a situation where yesterday I was unable to do anything at all after rebooting the PC because the pointer turned to an hourglass whenever I dragged it over the Start button and wouldn't react at all to the icons on my desktop. This had happened occasionally previously, but this time even rebooting yet again didn't help.

The first sign that the system was having a problem came a couple of weeks ago when I'd try to shut down and would get a message that something called ccApp.exe was not responding. I discovered that ccApp.exe is part of Norton Antivirus and that updating Norton should take care of the problem. Yesterday before everything went tits up, I updated Norton but was told that Norton Antivirus was broken and should be uninstalled and reinstalled. Today I have read that the pointer turning into an hourglass is probably related to Norton Antivirus as well. It probably thinks my mouse driver is a virus or something. So I need to uninstall the damned program, but it turns out that uninstalling Norton is a five step process that includes installing other utilities and hand-editing the registry.

May I just say fuck these fucking fucks? I paid forty bucks for this nightmare? Thank you, Symantec! You have earned my undying loyalty!