>Attempting to understand the thinking of the corporate firewall gods is difficult! In fact, individuals who control corporate computers in anyway seem to make things difficult for everyone else. Experience may prove otherwise! :)
The best example is tools like Norton Internet Security and Zone Alarm which has cost extra time, effort and money to the Universal Thread because they came up with an extensive unecessary amount of security in some of their latest versions that some of our users thought that the site was down.