Norton Antivirus

[NJITGS]

Greetings!

Can anyone tell my how to completely remove Norton Antivirus and Personal Firewall 2003 from my computer and registry? It seems that whenever the free trial version that cam with my computer expires it creates problems, I am assuming in attempt to scare me into purchsing it. I have uninstalled it with both; it's own uninstaller and the windows add/remove tool from the control panel but it is somehow still in my computer causing Internet Explorer and connection problems.

Thanks in adavance for your support!

Elaine Beauxreaugart-Weiderhoff

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Removing Norton AntiVirus 2003 or earlier by using the Rnav2003.exe
removal utility when Add/Remove programs fails
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2001092114452606

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Greetings!

Can anyone tell my how to completely remove Norton Antivirus and Personal Firewall 2003 from my computer and registry? It seems
that whenever the free trial version that cam with my computer expires it creates problems, I am assuming in attempt to scare me
into purchsing it. I have uninstalled it with both; it's own uninstaller and the windows add/remove tool from the control panel but
it is somehow still in my computer causing Internet Explorer and connection problems.

Thanks in adavance for your support!

Elaine Beauxreaugart-Weiderhoff

 

[R. McCarty]

Go back to Add/Remove, uninstall Live Update & LiveReg. Then go
to Symantec's website and download their Cleanup tools to remove
most (not all) remnants. If you've removed all Symantec software, you
can do a Search for Symantec. You'll likely find two or more folders
with that name - Both can be deleted, a Common Files one and a
profile specific for each user on the PC. Symantec products also tend
to leave drivers in the Non-Plug&Play category of Device Manager.
They are usually named Sym---, After clicking into the details box
for each, click the Driver (Tab), then Driver details - If the vendor is
identified as Symantec, it should be uninstalled.


Greetings!

Can anyone tell my how to completely remove Norton Antivirus and Personal
Firewall 2003 from my computer and registry? It seems that whenever the
free trial version that cam with my computer expires it creates problems, I
am assuming in attempt to scare me into purchsing it. I have uninstalled it
with both; it's own uninstaller and the windows add/remove tool from the
control panel but it is somehow still in my computer causing Internet
Explorer and connection problems.

Thanks in adavance for your support!

Elaine Beauxreaugart-Weiderhoff

 

[Stephen]

Greetings!

Can anyone tell my how to completely remove Norton Antivirus and
Personal Firewall 2003 from my computer and registry? It seems that
whenever the free trial version that cam with my computer expires it
creates problems, I am assuming in attempt to scare me into purchsing
it. I have uninstalled it with both; it's own uninstaller and the
windows add/remove tool from the control panel but it is somehow
still in my computer causing Internet Explorer and connection
problems.

Thanks in adavance for your support!

Elaine Beauxreaugart-Weiderhoff

'Good crikies, away with your HTML horror; use plain textnext time please ,
Ms. Beauxreaugart-Weiderhoff - thanks.

So many people use Norton Screw-up-the-works and I do not know why. I guess
they think it will do something. But mostly it just messes everything up.

Anyway, see if your System Restore can fix the problem. I hope there's a
restore point to just before Norton Virus was installed:

Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore

 

[NJITGS]

That was great! Thank you for the links to remove Norton Anti-Virus, now I have the same problem removing McAfee, does anyone know of a link to a removal tool to uninstall McAfee, I couldn't seem to find it on thier website, -perhaps there is an uninstaller out there not necessarily made by McAfee.

Thanks again for your terrific support!

Elaine

 

[S.Sengupta]

Try to stay in the original thread.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP