Not again with Norton!

gamblingman

gamblingman

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Ugh,

I thought I had taught my fiancee better than this. She installed Norton because someone told her it was good. Though she already had AVG free...... She is usually really careful about what she does with her computer. Guess mistakes happen though.

So I UN-installed Norton. But I'm wondering what everyone on here thinks of the Norton UN-install? Would you consider it thorough enough?

I only ask because I had Norton on my machine once. I HATED it. It took me forever to get it off. In the end I was having to go into regedit to remove (dig out) the last few traces of that stupid program. It was more like a virus than something that's supposed to be useful.

Eh?
 
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I don't know what your talking about there is nothing wrong with Norton. I have it on both of my computer. I have never had a virus of any kind. Norton has never gave me a problem and is a perfectly fine program. I been using Norton for 3 years and have never ever had a virus on any of my computer. I download a lot of stuff from torrent sites and limewire. Norton blocks anything that tries to come through.
 
What he's talking about ! Is that you can't have two Antiviruses installed ;)

Here's the Norton Removal Tool (and I'm happy you decided to remove this Antivirus that usually corrupts under infection) http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

If you want to go one further ;) Here's the AVG Remover Tool as well (AVG usually corrupts network/Internet under infection, in my experience) http://www.avg.com/download-tools

Oh just for interest here's free Avira, that even under infection has never corrupted (oh and I use this one too) http://www.free-av.com/

Your choice
 
Norton and AVG are both resource hogs.

Fatback, what is your boot time? Last time I removed Norton it eliminated 15 startup processes, and took a full minute off my boot time. I used Norton for years also, until I tried NOD32, which is good stuff.

I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials. Yes, it's free, and the lightest I've used.
 
anti

I use Trend Micro, and I've been really happy with it. T.M.'s got LOADS of great features.

I will try out the uninstall you provided. Thanks

I'm going to stick with AVG on her machine, I've not had problems with it, yet; knock on wood eh!

And I agree, Norton is resource hog. Its terrible at removing infection, and it generates loads of false positives. I hate Norton.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
Norton and AVG are both resource hogs.

Fatback, what is your boot time? Last time I removed Norton it eliminated 15 startup processes, and took a full minute off my boot time. I used Norton for years also, until I tried NOD32, which is good stuff.

I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials. Yes, it's free, and the lightest I've used.
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My boot time is about 45 seconds from me pushing the power button to all my programs loading. I might try something else and see how it goes. Does that security essentials come with a firewall, Antiphishing, and all that good stuff.
 
Fatback said:
My boot time is about 45 seconds from me pushing the power button to all my programs loading. I might try something else and see how it goes. Does that security essentials come with a firewall, Antiphishing, and all that good stuff.
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45 seconds is pretty good. What version of Norton do you use?

If you want an accurate time, open Task Manager ASAP when you
boot and wait for CPU to get to 0% usage. That's when you're done booting.

MSE is "integrated" with Windows, so it works with Windows Firewall and UAC if you have Vista.

Your browser should cover Phishing.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
45 seconds is pretty good. What version of Norton do you use?

If you want an accurate time, open Task Manager ASAP when you
boot and wait for CPU to get to 0% usage. That's when you're done booting.

MSE is "integrated" with Windows, so it works with Windows Firewall and UAC if you have Vista.

Your browser should cover Phishing.
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I have Norton Internet Security 2009 Premier Edition.

I have a sidebar gadget that tells me my CPU usage. So that's what I go buy it's probably not as accurate as task manager but it gets the job done.
 
Fatback said:
I have Norton Internet Security 2009 Premier Edition.

I have a sidebar gadget that tells me my CPU usage. So that's what I go buy it's probably not as accurate as task manager but it gets the job done.
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Sounds like Norton plays nice with your system. Pretty good boot times. I wouldn't change anything.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
Sounds like Norton plays nice with your system. Pretty good boot times. I wouldn't change anything.
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Yea if it's not broke don't fix it.

I do know that Norton can cause problems. I have fixed 3 computer that had there windows corrupted by Norton. I'm not 100% it was Norton but the error code that came up had Norton in it so I'd assume it had something to do with it.
 
Fatback said:
Yea if it's not broke don't fix it.

I do know that Norton can cause problems. I have fixed 3 computer that had there windows corrupted by Norton. I'm not 100% it was Norton but the error code that came up had Norton in it so I'd assume it had something to do with it.
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I used Norton for a few years before switching to NOD32, and I never had any issues with it either. (except slow boot times on my old single core)

gamerman4 said:
Revo Uninstaller can uninstall an app and then checks your registry and hard drive for leftover files.
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
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CCleaner also has an "Uninstall Programs" feature that takes care registry entries. Plus a registry backup and cleaner.
 
B and C

I use Acronis for backup and cleaning. Seems like most of what Ccleaner does, I can do myself. And without another program on my HDD.
 
gamblingman said:
I use Acronis for backup and cleaning. Seems like most of what Ccleaner does, I can do myself. And without another program on my HDD.
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It was a Registry Cleaner and Registry Backup I was referring to, not a data backup.

Plus the Uninstaller cleans the registry of any trace of the program you just installed. I'm not trying to argue, just pointing out another good tool.
 
argue?

I know you arent arguing. I thought you mean a HDD backup, but Acronis backups all my computer, files, settings, OS, registry. All of it, and it can make a repair disk amongst other things. It was only about $30 USD at bestbuy, and I also got a nice external HDD at the same time. They are part of my security system. I leave the external unplugged too, just in case.
 
I agree that Norton is a stupid program, always detect false and moreover hard to uninstall the shit. I am using Kaspersky Internet Security since year and It helped me a lot, It's user friendl and do the stuff quite good.

How amny of you use Kaspersky and how did you felt about it guys:)
 
gamblingman said:
I know you arent arguing. I thought you mean a HDD backup, but Acronis backups all my computer, files, settings, OS, registry. All of it, and it can make a repair disk amongst other things. It was only about $30 USD at bestbuy, and I also got a nice external HDD at the same time. They are part of my security system. I leave the external unplugged too, just in case.
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Sounds like good stuff. Cheap too.
 
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