norton and system restore

[Guest]

recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton to
do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one but
thank god it's been sorted

 

[Bill Yanaire]

If you want to avoid problems with your system, remove Norton and get AVAST
or AVG FREE for your system. Norton hogs resources and is nasty.

 

[Guest]

don't worry it will be going the distance as soon as my remaining 213days of
my subsciption have been used but i feel i paid too much to just ditch it and
waste half my money I think next time i will use avgfree for virus protection
windows firewall and defender will this suffice for a normal home user? any
thoughts?
ink

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Even though you paid for the subscription, why keep something on your
computer that constantly slows you down, causes problems, damages files,
etc... Just chalk it up to lifes experiences.

You will be happier in the long run.

 

[Guest]

yeah i know what you're saying and you're logic is verging on vulcan ,can i
use it on my sons pc that he uses chiefly for games or just bin it and what
do you think of my choices for when i do get rid ?

 

[Peter Foldes]

You were lucky this time. Here is Symantec's take on this

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html

 

[Bill Yanaire]

So the best thing to do is remove Norton and go to a better solution: AVAST
or AVG Free.


You were lucky this time. Here is Symantec's take on this

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html

 

[David]

recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton to
do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one but
thank god it's been sorted

the issue is with Product Protection being enabled in Norton; not if the
virus protection is on or not.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Marty,

Restoring the system in normal mode Resource Protection on, may not fail
every time. Give it time.

System Restore will fail to complete a restore in normal mode if the
following conditions are true:

* Symantec Resource Protection is turned on within the Norton application.
* System Restore finds missing or changed monitored files, or registry
changes related to the protected Norton application.

Symantec Resource Protection prevents modification or deletion of Symantec
files, processes, and registry keys by unauthorized applications. System
Restore is considered to be an unauthorized applications and Symantec will
cause the system restore to fail.

If no changes were made to the Norton application after a given restore
point is created, the restore should complete successfully in normal mode
with Resource Protection turned on.

System Restore should complete successfully when Resource Protection is
turned off in normal mode, or in Safe Mode. At present Resource Protection
is automatically disabled in Safe Mode.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org