Uninstall Norton

What is the best way to get rid of this beast? It seems to reside everywhere inside the registry. It's show size must be at least 18EEE with footprints left behind.

 

Well, I found out how to do it. Believe it or not, if the first uninstall fails, you have to reinstall the beast agian (full install) and then uninstall agian! Amazing. Does this guy still wear a lab coat on the front cover of the box?

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...5694500552355&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

 

Uninstalling Norton products can really make a terrible mess of things on your system. Believe me, I've experienced it. That's one reason why I don't use any Norton programs anymore.

 

I had problems with Norton Products years ago. With the trashed systems, unworkable fixes, and just the system overhead that Norton requires, I decided then and still do today, Norton is just not worth the headaches and expense. The only valid product from Norton is Ghost. It does work, as long as it is used in DOS mode.

 

So the big question for me and I am sure others as well when your updates expire do you just ride with it or try to dump it? If it is a pain to get rid of and is working good why unload it? I ask myself this all the time? What does the community say?

 

I got rid of it a couple of yrs. ago, after the licence expired. Was looking for something better at that time.

As for the uninstall, i had found a page at that time with very detailed info on how to go about this. I wish i still had that url as it would come in handy here. All i remember is using my reg cleaner and meticulously searching for anything Norton, NAV or Symantec and whatever else related, and deleting them. It took a while but i finally got rid of all of it. It was a long process, that's for sure.



snowbound

 

2003 and above, uninstall isn't too bad. Run a normal add/remove uninstall. Reboot. Then download and run the NAV/NIS uninstall utility you can get from Symantec. Reboot.

That's it.

 

You would have thought that as one of the leading Antivirus Packages, a problem like this would not arrise.

Jimbob

 

I mean Firewall package although they are both a pain to remove.

Jimbob

 

I'm on NAV 2003 and when I scratch it, I think it will be on a fresh XP install!

 

My system recovery disk has norton on it allready. So when I do a system recovery norton is installed. I believe I may be able to remove it from the installation but I don't want to corrupt a useable Recovery Disk as I can only make one, although I may be able to get around that.

Jimbob