Norton Internet Securities

[Allan]

Maybe you can help since Norton is so hard to get
answewrs from. My father bought his Norton product online
and installed it. I am about to install SP2 on his HP. I
am wondering if I can possible make a copy of his Norton
files and copy to CD and if system crashes and have to
start from scratch, I will be able to use the Norton CD I
have made to install it?
Thank you.
Allan

 

[Rock]

Maybe you can help since Norton is so hard to get
answewrs from. My father bought his Norton product online
and installed it. I am about to install SP2 on his HP. I
am wondering if I can possible make a copy of his Norton
files and copy to CD and if system crashes and have to
start from scratch, I will be able to use the Norton CD I
have made to install it?
Thank you.
Allan

You can't copy an installed program like that unless you image the
entire drive. When he downloaded the program didn't he save a copy of
the installation file? If that's not how it worked there should still
be some mechanism for him to redownload it from the net when he needs to
reinstall.

 

[R. McCarty]

Most all on-line purchases from Symantec's store include a
Download Protection add in (~$7.00). It guarantees the user
can re-download the purchase for a period of time.

You should always "Burn" the installer module and take a
Ultra Fine Point Sharpie pen and write the Activation code on
the disk face. Nav 2005 is around a 25 Megabyte download
and NIS/SWorks are probably larger, around 40+.

 

[kurttrail]

Maybe you can help since Norton is so hard to get
answewrs from. My father bought his Norton product online
and installed it. I am about to install SP2 on his HP. I
am wondering if I can possible make a copy of his Norton
files and copy to CD and if system crashes and have to
start from scratch, I will be able to use the Norton CD I
have made to install it?
Thank you.
Allan

For NIS 2003, the install files were stored in a folder called "VBOX" if I
remember correctly. Do a search of his computer for that, and you may get
lucky, if they haven't change the way they deliver their products over the
net.

And when it's time to upgrade tell your dad to dump Norton! They suck as
much or more than Microsoft.

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[NoNoBadDog!]

Despite what kurttrail says, Norton products are the most widely used
security products in the world. You will need the original installation
package in order to reinstall. Just copying the installation folder to CD
will not work, because Norton installs files to other folders as well, and
many of the files have to be registered and entries made into the registry.

Bobby

 

[kurttrail]

Despite what kurttrail says, Norton products are the most widely used
security products in the world.

Yeah. Keep following the lemmings over the cliff.

"I have got to the point that I would not have any Symantec software near
any machine I have dealings with." - Alex Nichol MS-MVP

And Alex is one of the most respected MVP's that posts to this group. And
while I may have bickered with Alex over PA, he has gained my respect too.

Norton is almost as bad as installing spy-adware for the hit it does on
system performance and its ability to screw up an OS installation to the
point where only a clean install of the OS will cure it.

You will need the original
installation package in order to reinstall. Just copying the
installation folder to CD will not work, because Norton installs
files to other folders as well, and many of the files have to be
registered and entries made into the registry.

Boobby

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"