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Old January 13th 05, 06:14 PM
Dan
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Yeah, I will search the options and check with a Norton newsgroup or support
if necessary. Unfortunately my desire for GoBack supercedes my desire to rid
Norton completely from my system. sigh and the manufacturer used to be
Roxio but they sold it

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
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: It probably wants to check for Updates, Dan. No big deal. You can
: probably find some setting in its Options to tell it not to do that.
:
: Or you could lighten the load entirely and ban all things
: Norton/Symantec from your system. That's what I do.
:
: --
: Gary S. Terhune
: MS MVP Shell/User
:
: "Dan" wrote in message
: ...
: Well, I can say that I know use Norton because Symantec bought out
: Roxio so I
: was stuck with going with "GoBack" from Symantec and I bought this one
: product which is very useful for restoring a PC. I have set the
: configurations carefully to minimize intrusion on the part of the
: Norton
: utility. However, GoBack wants to access the Internet each time I
: reboot and
: this makes me wonder what Symantec's game is. I can deny this
: accessing the
: Internet through Zone Alarm Pro. because I have it set to manual but
: it still
: makes me even more suspicious of Norton products. Does anyone know
: why this
: product would want to phone home? If I deny Goback access to the
: Internet
: the product still works great and no other message is displayed.
:
: "AlmostBob" wrote in message
: ...
: : Symantec will become Sirius Cybernetics Corporation thus: "It is
: very easy
: : to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of
: : achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other
: words ---
: and
: : this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of [its]
: Galaxy-wide
: : success is founded --- their fundamental design flaws are completely
: hidden
: : by their superficial design flaws."
: :
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: before
: use
: :
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: : _
: :
: :
: : "Larry" wrote in message
: : ...
: : Recently, I ran a clean boot to enable my scandisk and disk
: defragmenter
: : operate w/o interference. However, after successfully completing
: those
: : tasks, when I try to run my Norton program, I get the error bos
: titled:
: : NMAIN. In the box it says there was an error with ASCOMPBR.DLL I
: don't
: : understand what that is. Did I do something wrong while running
: MSCONFIG?
: : Will somebody please help.
: :
: :
: : --
: : Thanks for taking the time.
: :
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