I don't know how this works with current version, but more then half year ago when I was using Gator somehow it keept disconneting me from the net. Always after 15 minuts online my modem disconneted.
Now, You may think that this was not Gator's fault - wrong. Killing Gator's process helped for current Windows session, and uninstalling it helped for good:)
Meaby that's becouse Symantec threat Microsoft software as non-popular and that's why this is not very dangerous :)))
I belive this statement is at least year old. Linux and BSD are both used widely in commerce.
Linux is acually "ready for desktop" too, IMHO. Just look at new KDE, GNOME, and at games Loki is releasing.
Now, You may think that this was not Gator's fault - wrong. Killing Gator's process helped for current Windows session, and uninstalling it helped for good :)