Has software protection gone too far?

A friend of mine was installing a brand new Sony Vaio. He had obviously done all the registration things and had moved on the installing software. You know, the stuff people actually use.

Well, guess what happened when he got to FireFox 2.0, also nice shiny new software?

Up pops the allegedly helpful "computer protection suite" to say:

"this software is too new"

Now what is that all about? Google was unhelpful. (So was the computer protection suite).

Hat tip to Rob for that one!