Norton Update Selling Personal Info???

There was a story that has virtually disappeared from the Internet involving Norton and a software update that is installed sending off their customers personal information to a remote location.  Possibly it was true, possibly it was not.  We came across a computer forum that has debated the issue.  Here is the story - There has been a lot of controversy over a program called pifts.exe that is bundled with Norton products. This program is said to connect to stats.norton.com and send information from your computer to a remote site. What makes it even more strange is that any topics created to discuss this program in the Norton community forums have been erased. Due to this programs behavior, and Norton's strange activity, a lot of theories have been popping up from data being sent to Africa to NSA snooping.  Read the rest of the dialogue here