Norton Antivirus and Internet Security

[Thomas Heimann]

I installed MS AntiSpyware. After the installation, both
Norton Antivirus and Internet Security (2003) which I had
running were disabled and showed that an application
error occurred and that the application should be
uninstalled and reinstalled. I did this, and the
installation seemed to go fine, with several allow alerts
popping up from MS Antispyware, as well as a couple of
prompts (allow/block) for Norton components,which
I 'allowed'. Now, the application seems to be installed,
however there is no icon on the system tray, and if I
double click on the Norton Internet Security link, or try
to launch Norton Antivirus, nothing happens.

Does anyone else have experience with Norton Antivirus
and/or Internet Security in conjunction with MS
Antispyware?

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated, either post here
or email me directly to (e-mail address removed) (best
would be to post here for the benefit of all, plus copy
me an email, thanks!!!)

Thomas

 

[wgd]

I installed MS AntiSpyware. After the installation, both
Norton Antivirus and Internet Security (2003) which I had
running were disabled and showed that an application
error occurred and that the application should be
uninstalled and reinstalled. I did this, and the
installation seemed to go fine, with several allow alerts
popping up from MS Antispyware, as well as a couple of
prompts (allow/block) for Norton components,which
I 'allowed'. Now, the application seems to be installed,
however there is no icon on the system tray, and if I
double click on the Norton Internet Security link, or try
to launch Norton Antivirus, nothing happens.

Does anyone else have experience with Norton Antivirus
and/or Internet Security in conjunction with MS
Antispyware?

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated, either post here
or email me directly to (e-mail address removed) (best
would be to post here for the benefit of all, plus copy
me an email, thanks!!!)

Before you install programs like Norton Antivirus and Internet Security
you should probably deactive the MS Antispyware real-time security
agents. They may be interferring with a completely successful Norton
installation. You can reactivate them after the install completes.

 

[Jim]

-----Original Message-----
I installed MS AntiSpyware. After the installation, both
Norton Antivirus and Internet Security (2003) which I had
running were disabled and showed that an application
error occurred and that the application should be
uninstalled and reinstalled. I did this, and the
installation seemed to go fine, with several allow alerts
popping up from MS Antispyware, as well as a couple of
prompts (allow/block) for Norton components,which
I 'allowed'. Now, the application seems to be installed,
however there is no icon on the system tray, and if I
double click on the Norton Internet Security link, or try
to launch Norton Antivirus, nothing happens.

Does anyone else have experience with Norton Antivirus
and/or Internet Security in conjunction with MS
Antispyware?

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated, either post here
or email me directly to (e-mail address removed) (best
would be to post here for the benefit of all, plus copy
me an email, thanks!!!)

Thomas
.
Thomas,

I've expereinced the exect same thing and am in search of a
solution. Will this teach us not to use Beta software?

 

[Juan C. Reyes]

My experience:

Running WinXP Home w/all updates. Installed MS Anti-Spyware...seemed to
worked pretty well, but then ran into major problems with my Norton Internet
Security 2005 firewall software. The firewall was preventing me from
accessing the internet (only email and newgroups) but no internet....this
caused a whole slew of problems with applications trying to self-update or
applications dependent on this service. Not sure if this was some
self-protective measure by Norton (maybe it saw the anti-spyware as
dangerous?). Anyway, I uninstalled MS anti-spyware and did a system restore
to just before I had installed it. Everything's now back to normal.

Aside from this experience, the software looks quite promising. Once bugs
are worked out, I think it can replace the several other anti-spyware
programs I have running.

Looking forward to the final (stable) version of this product...Juan

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

I've expereinced the exect same thing and am in search of a
solution. Will this teach us not to use Beta software?

Probably not. <G>

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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[Eric Hammers]

Well, seeing how you folks are having these issues with
the MS AntiSpyware and Norton, I don't believe I will try
it with McAfee Antivirus. lol. Good luck.

EH.

 

[JW]

Ditto. After installing the <promising> spyware, Outlook
was unable to send or receive ANY mail from ANY account.
Furthermore, the Norton Internet Security 2005 icon lost
it's right-click functionality (the only clue I had as to
the actual cause of the problem).

Uninstalling the spyware did NOT correct the problem
until I completely uninstalled and reinstalled Norton
Internet Security 2005.

 

[Frankie]

Thomas,
My OS is XP SP2 using Norton 2004, with great ignorance I
installed a "free" Zone Alarm for tsting for Trojans and
Spyware. Troubles and problems do not begin describing
what I encountered. Removing Zone Alarm from Programs and
Registry was near impossible!

Norton Symantec prevents and/or removes Spyware and
Trojans, hence the source for the many OS conflicts!!!
Additionally, Zone Alarm planted a Trojan inside my OS
known as - BLA Trojan -

The lesson I learned, when you have one Anti Spyware,
Trojan, Ad Ware Program installed as Norton Symantec,
installing another Spyware Program is equal with sticking
your self in the eye with a sharp stick!

There is a earlier Post that reads something as what a
way to spend Saturday resolving inherent conflicts with
two Anti Spyware Programs; lock downs, no start up, ect,
ect.
Frankie