Norton Antivirus

I use AVAST on all our machines at home - been using it for years and have never had a problem with it.

Ok Richard, is this coincidence or what? Heres a screenscrape of the Ad posted on the top of my NEPA webpage....

Chris F.

It's no coincidence, Google knows what the page content is because it has it indexed and serves ads based on the content.

You'll see that anywhere Google ads are displayed here or elsewhere.

Download the NRT this before you try to remove Norton, since often the firewall component doesn't remove correctly and kills networking.

http://service1.symantec.com/Support/ts ... 3108162039

Richard S. wrote:AVG or AVAST are the two I hear suggested the most and AVAST seems to be the choice as of late. I'm running AVG myself.

As I understand it getting rid of Norton is no easy task. e.g. Add/Remove doesn't exactly remove it totally. Do some research on how to make it "gone".

To get rid of Norton go to their website and down their "removal tool" and according to them run it twice and reboot between each and after.

I just up graded from NAV08 to NAV09. So far I find the new version easier on resources than the last version. I may be the only one, but I've been using Norton Anti-virus for several years and I haven't had any problems with it.

I tried AVAST on my laptop and the popup reminder to buy the software would drive me to say things I can't repeat because if you are not on line at the time there was no way to get rid of it.

The only pop-ups Avast gives me is letting me know it's updated. They do require registration and entry of a license # for even the free version and it can be annoying until that step is satisfied.

beemerboy wrote:To get rid of Norton go to their website and down their "removal tool" and according to them run it twice and reboot between each and after.

I understand that Norton has just signed a deal with most computer manufacturers to start installing an ounce of Norton C4 in all new machines, with booby traps to make it virtually impossible to remove it as well! (unless you pay Norton for a bomb disposal Tech.......err...I meant a Norton computer tech to come & safely remove it)

Sounds like they just want to "nationalize" the computers. Nothing wrong that is there?

Kevin

Nortons seems to work well on this laptop and Trend Micro killed my old PC.

Devil505 wrote:I understand that Norton has just signed a deal with most computer manufacturers to start installing an ounce of Norton C4 in all new machines, with booby traps to make it virtually impossible to remove it as well! (unless you pay Norton for a bomb disposal Tech.......err...I meant a Norton computer tech to come & safely remove it)

Yep, but they have been doing that for years. Installing a TRIAL version on all new machines. If you want to remove it, you can follow a couple tips in this thread, or you can call Microsoft, they'll be glad to talk you thru it. You can also find a thread on the Micrsoft website on how to remove it.

beemerboy wrote:To get rid of Norton go to their website and down their "removal tool" and according to them run it twice and reboot between each and after.

Seriously, can anyone think of a benign reason why removing Norton would be made so difficult? (almost any other program can easily be removed by closing the program, going to Control Panel & simply uninstalling...period!
To my way of paranoid thinking, I can only think of one reason why Norton would be so difficult to remove: They intentionaly are trying to FORCE new computer owners to pay them"Protection" money!

Yup, and I did last week. It was convienient my wife said. Never thought about the conspiracy theory or I would have stewed about it until I got a virus! Damn, I hate it when I am outfoxed by clever marketing!

Kevin

Devil505 wrote:Seriously, can anyone think of a benign reason why removing Norton would be made so difficult? (almost any other program can easily be removed by closing the program, going to Control Panel & simply uninstalling...period!
To my way of paranoid thinking, I can only think of one reason why Norton would be so difficult to remove: They intentionaly are trying to FORCE new computer owners to pay them"Protection" money!

You hit the nail on the head! Most new-bees to Computers don't understand where to go, to get info on how to remove it, so they fork over the $$$$ when they start seeing those threatening pop-ups exclaiming "YOUR COMPUTER IS NO LONGER PROTECTED!!!! PAY US $$$$ AND WE MIGHT CONSIDER PROTECTING YOUR COMPUTER AGAIN"

KLook wrote:Yup, and I did last week. It was convienient my wife said. Never thought about the conspiracy theory or I would have stewed about it until I got a virus! Damn, I hate it when I am outfoxed by clever marketing!

Kevin

& you aren't alone Kevin...That's what Norton (Symantec) counts on! (It's always more convenient to just hand your lunch money over to the school bully than it is to stand up to him!)

I wonder what would happen if we all wrote to HP, Dell, Compaq, etc & said that we will refuse to buy any of their products if Norton is not made easy to remove?

Better still, how about this:.... I will never again buy a new computer (at Best Buy or wherever) without making a condition of my purchase that their techs uninstall Norton, (at no charge) BEFORE I take the computer home)
I suggest we all do the same. (Norton will get the message from the retailers who have to spend an hour per sale uninstalling the garbage)

Can a coal brother get an AMEN?

I dumped Norton a long time ago.

I believe that your anit-virus software should not behave like a virus.

Oh alright, AMEN.

Kevin