Norton Antivirus Thinks Quicktime is a Worm

Just registered here to point out that the latest Norton AntiVirus update seems to be blocking Quicktime trailer viewing by default because it seems to think it's detecting a worm. To sort it just disable "Internet Worm Protection".
If a user deselects "Turn on AutoBlock" whilst attempting to fix the approriate setting then this seems to result in constant connects/disconnects to the server - which can't be doing it any good.
n/a Windows XP

Good to know it helped.
I was actually using a download manager to get a few trailer and then view them later. When I started seeing a load of one-off Worm related warning messages whilst using the download manager I released something was up. So the investigation started...
Apple should put a message up on their website to alert Norton users - although I can't find a way of telling Apple about this. I'm going to see if I can email Norton about this to make sure they know and fix it in their next definition update.
n/a Windows XP

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