Reinstall Norton?

[Bruiser]

As many of you know, I am having some problems with Norton. Do you think I could uninstall it, then reinstall and possibly that solve the problem? I have tried adware scans etc and that does't fix the problem. I scan the PC with Norton and nothing turns up.

Suggestions?

[uka100]

Well I recently uninstalled Norton and installed the free AVG and it found 4 viruses (including a keylogger) that Norton never detected, so if I were you I would switch to AVG. http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

[hech54]

You might want to try here first:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/index.php?

I had spyware on my computer that disabled my Norton.
Spybot, CWShredder, Ad-Aware(which also sometimes disables Norton) and a few others could not solve the problem.

Read the FAQ first....then download and run Hijackthis....then post the log from Hijackthis to the above message board.

It's VERY important to read the FAQ or the free help will be slow coming.
They are very good and helped me alot. Give it a shot....can't hurt. Don't expect instant help....but they WILL get to you.

[BJ_M]

i would remove norton anything (except maybe ghost) and throw it as far as you can throw ...... and don't look back

good luck removing norton anything though -- some of thier stuff is very hard to completly remove or messes up your system still further than what it already did...'

[gmatov]

BJ,

Norton has no problem with uninstall except for the damn AV. Every time I upgrade, everything will upgrade EXCEPT AV, "You MUST uninstal" and the damn thing will not.

All the others are not really any better at catching "bugs" than Norton is. They may get some things that are are not really virii, and make you think that they are better, but they are still the biggest in the business, and expend more to keep up than all the others.

Hell, they probably alert CERTS as to what is the Devil of the Day, and there is a new one every day. Can anyone say "Script Kiddies"?

Cheers,

George

[BJ_M]

all i know is that in our studios and in at least 3 other animation/entertainment companies (major) - as well in at least 1 collage and 1 high school i know of for sure -- its almost a firing offence to install norton anything on any system -- as thier products have screwed up more pc's and servers than people can shake a stick at ..

also -- you will find when uninstalling a lot of left in reg entries and drivers installed that arenot removed .. yea - i'm no IT guy , but mention norton to our IT people, they start spitting ...

[gmatov]

Beej,

The first time I installed Norton, it was given to me from work. They figured if you were going to bring anything in from home, they wanted you to have disinfected it first.

It screwed my machine royally. Fdisk, format, re-install. It has been much better, since

I don't know, in the IT world, it may be a pariah.

I just wish it could catch the SOB spoofing my address, and getting me all the returnrd crap. I wish it could catch the SOBs sending me official lookin docs telling me my recipients are complaining that I am spamming them, click here for the password to file a rebuttal

The loaded trojan, for which you have to click a PW to execute the payload.

And, I do not think any other company is going to do any better. Paid or unpaid.

Cheers,

George

[Jayhawk]

I couldn't agree more with BJ_M. After 15 years of supporting 90,000 desktops at my company I have yet to run across a program that causes as much trouble as Norton (any Norton product is suspect). If you look at the background of the company it started as a "renegade" company that "worked around" every operating system available. Some of that was good and perhaps needed at the time. There wern't any real standards anyway.

Now there are standards and unfortunately bleeding edge renegade programs rarely play well with those that follow common standards. Whenever I work on a "Norton machine" the first thing I do is remove it. Usually clears up most if not all of the problems, plus frees up a lot of resources, registry entries, hard drive space.

A lot of people like the bundled approach but you rarely find "best of breed" in a bundle. AVG is a great free anti-virus program. Acronis TrueImage is twice the program Ghost will ever be. SpyBot Search & Destry handles ad / spyware better than Norton and it's free.

Norton ?. No thanks.