You're making a big assumption about Curious Labs' response time. A reasonable alternative explanation would be that the key personel were away at a CGI convention... I'm not convinced a local area network serial number checking system can fairly be defined as a Trojan. For example, most demo versions of programs have an operating system registry checking method whereby they can tell if the user is attempting to re-install the demo after the previous installation expired and was removed. Is that a Trojan? I don't think so. The only problem with this particular effort from Curious Labs was that it wasn't tested with any firewall programs, and it wasn't mentioned in the documentation. Both were reasonable things for users to expect from the company, and this has been acknowledged by them, and an apology made. I'm certainly not expecting anything else from them. I can understand people getting worried and hot under the collar when a situation is confused and debatable, but once a thorough explanation, apology and assurance have been given, continued spite starts to look just a little bit silly.