'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe

Yeah, I really dislike the short-sighted approach that Symantec took with the firewall - basically, it comes with a list of "well-known trojan ports" which it is set to block. Which is all very well, except a lot of those are in the random-port range, and it makes no distinction between stuff that happens entirely on localhost (almost always safe) and stuff that comes from outside. Oh, and by default if you trip its IDS then it;ll block the source for half an hour. Which gives you a very nice remote DDOS - simply send someone a ping of death or something every 25 minutes that claims to come from the google web server.

With Eclipse, I've started to rather like it - it beats the BlueJ IDE hands down (tho BlueJ is very handy for debugging objects). It does tend to chew up ~100 meg or so tho.