norton antivirus 2006

[CharlieKerr71]

I have a very rare chance of getting viruses, etc. I'm online maybe
once a week to check my mail.
Norton 06 has considerably slowed down my machine, so I'd like to shut
it off and just turn it on once a month and update/scan. I see there's
several processes in my task panel running that pertain to Norton, and
are draining my CPU. Can I shut everything off?
ck

 

[Alias~-]

I have a very rare chance of getting viruses, etc. I'm online maybe
once a week to check my mail.
Norton 06 has considerably slowed down my machine, so I'd like to shut
it off and just turn it on once a month and update/scan. I see there's
several processes in my task panel running that pertain to Norton, and
are draining my CPU. Can I shut everything off?
ck

Unfortunately, the only way to truly get rid of Norton is to do a clean
install.

Alias

 

[Guest]

Hello, i would recommend shopping around for a virus scan that uses less
resources. I was confronted by the same problem a while back, i changed my
virus scan to Mcafee Enterprise Virusscan; its much less of a resource hog,
and i would say its better than norton. out of curiosity what are your system
specs, such as CPU speed, Ram?

 

[FeMaster]

Unfortunately, the only way to truly get rid of Norton is to do a clean
install.

Yup, easiest way for those that aren't computer savvy... Otherwise, it's
not the easiest. Especially for those of us that have tons of different
applications installed.

It would take days to get everything reinstalled and updated so that it is
set up the way it was. Takes only a matter of a couple of hours to rid a
system of Norton products. Which sounds easier to you?

 

[Alias~-]

Yup, easiest way for those that aren't computer savvy... Otherwise, it's
not the easiest. Especially for those of us that have tons of different
applications installed.

It would take days to get everything reinstalled and updated so that it is
set up the way it was. Takes only a matter of a couple of hours to rid a
system of Norton products. Which sounds easier to you?

If one is computer savvy, one doesn't install Norton in the first place,
of course!

When I reinstall, it takes hours, not days.

Alias

 

[Leythos]

Unfortunately, the only way to truly get rid of Norton is to do a clean
install.

Fornuately you're wrong again. To remove Norton 2006, as I've done this
on about 50 computers, you need to do the standard Add/remove programs,
then follow the instructions, then reboot, then do add/remove and make
sure that you've uninstalled LiveUpdate, then reboot, then after it
looks like it's all gone, reboot one more time. While there may be some
left over folders/registry entries, the applications will be removed and
no after effects will be impacting the system performance.

 

[Alias~-]

Fornuately you're wrong again. To remove Norton 2006, as I've done this
on about 50 computers, you need to do the standard Add/remove programs,
then follow the instructions, then reboot, then do add/remove and make
sure that you've uninstalled LiveUpdate, then reboot, then after it
looks like it's all gone, reboot one more time. While there may be some
left over folders/registry entries, the applications will be removed and
no after effects will be impacting the system performance.

We already know you're a Norton fanboy.

Alias

P.S. You're wrong.

 

[FeMaster]

Fornuately you're wrong again. To remove Norton 2006, as I've done this
on about 50 computers, you need to do the standard Add/remove programs,
then follow the instructions, then reboot, then do add/remove and make
sure that you've uninstalled LiveUpdate, then reboot, then after it
looks like it's all gone, reboot one more time. While there may be some
left over folders/registry entries, the applications will be removed and
no after effects will be impacting the system performance.

Not completely true. Yes, there will still be folder, registry entries,
etc, but there will still be ONE running task that is not uninstalled, and
can only be removed MANUALLY. This is the "timer" file, if you can call it
that. It keeps tracked of your subscription (activation) time period, and
continues to load at every boot, running in the background, until you either
remove it (and it's associated registry entries), or do a fresh install of
your OS. This file will be running in the background for the life of your
OS install.

The file is symlcsvc.exe. This will always be present after installing any
Norton (Symantec) product. It keeps tract of your subscription status. Not
even Symantec's "uninstaller" you can download from their site will get rid
of it... I guess it's their way of making sure you don't "cheat" them by
reinstalling and getting your full 1-year of updates again once your time
runs out... This can be bypassed very easily, however: Stop the process,
delete the file, use FIND in the registry, and delete any reference to the
file. That stops the booting process.

The file can be found here:
[DRIVE]:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC

You will actually want to delete the entire folder, as there is a .dll file
by the same name. The folder contains the activation and subscription
info...

 

[Baloo]

I have a very rare chance of getting viruses, etc. I'm online maybe
once a week to check my mail.
Norton 06 has considerably slowed down my machine, so I'd like to shut
it off and just turn it on once a month and update/scan.

Norton is considered harmful. Just use AVG instead.
http://free.grisoft.com/

 

[Baloo]

If one is computer savvy, one doesn't install Norton in the first place,
of course!

When I reinstall, it takes hours, not days.

Run Debian instead and antivirus becomes largely moot. What's
reinstallation? ) *duck*

 

[Leythos]

Fornuately you're wrong again. To remove Norton 2006, as I've done this
on about 50 computers, you need to do the standard Add/remove programs,
then follow the instructions, then reboot, then do add/remove and make
sure that you've uninstalled LiveUpdate, then reboot, then after it
looks like it's all gone, reboot one more time. While there may be some
left over folders/registry entries, the applications will be removed and
no after effects will be impacting the system performance.

Not completely true. Yes, there will still be folder, registry entries,
etc, but there will still be ONE running task that is not uninstalled, and
can only be removed MANUALLY. This is the "timer" file, if you can call it
that. It keeps tracked of your subscription (activation) time period, and
continues to load at every boot, running in the background, until you either
remove it (and it's associated registry entries), or do a fresh install of
your OS. This file will be running in the background for the life of your
OS install.

The file is symlcsvc.exe. This will always be present after installing any
Norton (Symantec) product. It keeps tract of your subscription status. Not
even Symantec's "uninstaller" you can download from their site will get rid
of it... I guess it's their way of making sure you don't "cheat" them by
reinstalling and getting your full 1-year of updates again once your time
runs out... This can be bypassed very easily, however: Stop the process,
delete the file, use FIND in the registry, and delete any reference to the
file. That stops the booting process.

The file can be found here:
[DRIVE]:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC

You will actually want to delete the entire folder, as there is a .dll file
by the same name. The folder contains the activation and subscription
info...

I just uninstalled NAV 2006 from 5 machines, while upgrading them to
Symantec Corporate 10.1, and did not find any trace of the file you
mentioned above, not was there a CCPD.. directory on any of the machines
where I uninstalled NAV2006.

 

[Leythos]

Norton is considered harmful. Just use AVG instead.
http://free.grisoft.com/

AVG provides less realtime protection than Norton, in fact, less than
many of the others. AVG is slow in updating detections.