Norton protected files in recycle bin.

[slimmx]

I have Norton antivirus 2003 and now when I right click on the recycle bin I have an option to delete NORTON PROTECTED FILES. I checked and I have over 600 of them in there. Should I delete it? Do I need it? And what the hell is it?

[gmatov]

Well over 3000 in my Norton Protected bin, not a hell of a lot of drive space used.

Prob with this thing is, you delete 25 at a time, unless someone knows how to delete them all at one clip.

Cheers,

George

[808smokey]

Just right click the trash, select properties, select norton protection. Click "Purge Protected Files" or "Empty Protected Files" then remove protection on that drive - if you want too.

Just my .02¢

[au7usa]

Isn't the Norton Recycle Bin a part of Norton Utilities?
I've got Norton AntiVirus 2003 running and i don't see anything like that on my system.

[slimmx]

I only got Norton antivirus 2003 and it installed this feature. I still don't know if it's safe to delete those protected files?

[808smokey]

I still don't know if it's safe to delete those protected files?

They're files you already deleted or Norton is protecting every single file on your computer. They're duplicate files so you can delete them.