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ME and Norton uninstall problem
this is for Mike M..hopefully you are reading this.
since you mentioned to Missy, that Norton Antivirus is the worst for ME..(i agree)..have both and nothing but trouble.. can you suggest how i can delete Norton/Symantec and all files that Norton 'virus-es' into the system so you cannot delete or uninstall. have tried to uninstall, but b/c it has a recycle bin protection(it latches itself onto the recycle bin for backup protection)..since i sent all Norton's files into that bin, it will not let sytem's "empty recycle bin" access them in order to clear the Bin. Norton is protecting it's files by sharing the Bin's .exe file and now i cannot open the Bin unless i rt.click and choose 'open'. once 'open', though, it still cannot be emptied. Am trying to clean out old Me computer files, including Norton Internet Security '07 -- GBA |
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Candle
this is an old problem - caused by not uninstalling the Norton programs in the proper sequence (which Norton refuses to divulge) the best solution is to use the Norton manual uninstall instructions for whichever version(s) of NAV/NIS/NSW you have had installed start by looking here http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01090708472107 for versions from 2003 and up If you have an earlier version, then let us know which one, and we'll have a look for specific instructions Good Luck Noel Paton Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "candle" wrote in message ... this is for Mike M..hopefully you are reading this. since you mentioned to Missy, that Norton Antivirus is the worst for ME..(i agree)..have both and nothing but trouble.. can you suggest how i can delete Norton/Symantec and all files that Norton 'virus-es' into the system so you cannot delete or uninstall. have tried to uninstall, but b/c it has a recycle bin protection(it latches itself onto the recycle bin for backup protection)..since i sent all Norton's files into that bin, it will not let sytem's "empty recycle bin" access them in order to clear the Bin. Norton is protecting it's files by sharing the Bin's .exe file and now i cannot open the Bin unless i rt.click and choose 'open'. once 'open', though, it still cannot be emptied. Am trying to clean out old Me computer files, including Norton Internet Security '07 -- GBA |
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Candle:
Noel is quite right. His link will lead you to a Symantec web page to download the Norton Removal Tool. It will removal all Norton products from 2003 through 2007. I have found that this tool is the best way to thoroughly remove Norton 2003-2007 products. Using it will save you much trouble and many headaches. Let us know how this works for you. Cheers, Jerry "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Candle this is an old problem - caused by not uninstalling the Norton programs in the proper sequence (which Norton refuses to divulge) the best solution is to use the Norton manual uninstall instructions for whichever version(s) of NAV/NIS/NSW you have had installed start by looking here http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01090708472107 for versions from 2003 and up If you have an earlier version, then let us know which one, and we'll have a look for specific instructions Good Luck Noel Paton Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "candle" wrote in message ... this is for Mike M..hopefully you are reading this. since you mentioned to Missy, that Norton Antivirus is the worst for ME..(i agree)..have both and nothing but trouble.. can you suggest how i can delete Norton/Symantec and all files that Norton 'virus-es' into the system so you cannot delete or uninstall. have tried to uninstall, but b/c it has a recycle bin protection(it latches itself onto the recycle bin for backup protection)..since i sent all Norton's files into that bin, it will not let sytem's "empty recycle bin" access them in order to clear the Bin. Norton is protecting it's files by sharing the Bin's .exe file and now i cannot open the Bin unless i rt.click and choose 'open'. once 'open', though, it still cannot be emptied. Am trying to clean out old Me computer files, including Norton Internet Security '07 -- GBA |
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.....ah! - finally found the right ref for the removal of earlier versions of
NAV http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01045512474266 ....and for Norton Utilities http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...00092515281909 ....which gives instructions for getting rid of the Protected Recycle bin HTH -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Candle this is an old problem - caused by not uninstalling the Norton programs in the proper sequence (which Norton refuses to divulge) the best solution is to use the Norton manual uninstall instructions for whichever version(s) of NAV/NIS/NSW you have had installed start by looking here http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01090708472107 for versions from 2003 and up If you have an earlier version, then let us know which one, and we'll have a look for specific instructions Good Luck Noel Paton Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "candle" wrote in message ... this is for Mike M..hopefully you are reading this. since you mentioned to Missy, that Norton Antivirus is the worst for ME..(i agree)..have both and nothing but trouble.. can you suggest how i can delete Norton/Symantec and all files that Norton 'virus-es' into the system so you cannot delete or uninstall. have tried to uninstall, but b/c it has a recycle bin protection(it latches itself onto the recycle bin for backup protection)..since i sent all Norton's files into that bin, it will not let sytem's "empty recycle bin" access them in order to clear the Bin. Norton is protecting it's files by sharing the Bin's .exe file and now i cannot open the Bin unless i rt.click and choose 'open'. once 'open', though, it still cannot be emptied. Am trying to clean out old Me computer files, including Norton Internet Security '07 -- GBA |
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ooops! - Symantec in their infinite wisdom have broken their own link to the
RNAV2003 tool on that page.... look here if you need it http://service1.symantec.com/support...6?opendocument You may also need to use the SYMClean utility to get rid of the remains of NSW files for pre-2003 versions http://service1.symantec.com/support...01101612274407 (I HATE the Symantec site - it's a nightmare to find anything, and all the b&&&dy links have to be checked!) -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... ....ah! - finally found the right ref for the removal of earlier versions of NAV http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01045512474266 ...and for Norton Utilities http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...00092515281909 ...which gives instructions for getting rid of the Protected Recycle bin HTH -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Candle this is an old problem - caused by not uninstalling the Norton programs in the proper sequence (which Norton refuses to divulge) the best solution is to use the Norton manual uninstall instructions for whichever version(s) of NAV/NIS/NSW you have had installed start by looking here http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01090708472107 for versions from 2003 and up If you have an earlier version, then let us know which one, and we'll have a look for specific instructions Good Luck Noel Paton Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "candle" wrote in message ... this is for Mike M..hopefully you are reading this. since you mentioned to Missy, that Norton Antivirus is the worst for ME..(i agree)..have both and nothing but trouble.. can you suggest how i can delete Norton/Symantec and all files that Norton 'virus-es' into the system so you cannot delete or uninstall. have tried to uninstall, but b/c it has a recycle bin protection(it latches itself onto the recycle bin for backup protection)..since i sent all Norton's files into that bin, it will not let sytem's "empty recycle bin" access them in order to clear the Bin. Norton is protecting it's files by sharing the Bin's .exe file and now i cannot open the Bin unless i rt.click and choose 'open'. once 'open', though, it still cannot be emptied. Am trying to clean out old Me computer files, including Norton Internet Security '07 -- GBA |
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(I HATE the Symantec site - it's a nightmare to find anything, and
all the b&&&dy links have to be checked!) Which is why I have been sitting here for the last hour or so watching you answer the question. Symantec's site is just like their products - total cr$p. -- Mike Noel Paton wrote: ooops! - Symantec in their infinite wisdom have broken their own link to the RNAV2003 tool on that page.... look here if you need it http://service1.symantec.com/support...6?opendocument You may also need to use the SYMClean utility to get rid of the remains of NSW files for pre-2003 versions http://service1.symantec.com/support...01101612274407 (I HATE the Symantec site - it's a nightmare to find anything, and all the b&&&dy links have to be checked!) |
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....'morning Mike!
I did wonder how come you'd not chimed in before It's been so long since I had anything to do with Norton on a Win9x system, I'd forgotten how bad the site actually was, and their internal search engine is totally useless. For future reference, the best way I've found for searching the site is to use Google with the site:symantec.com switch - although I haven't tried 'bing' yet. (I must admit it was a surprise when MS announced bing - I've always used it as an acronym for BootItNG, and sorta assumed that terabytesunlimited had acquired the domains) -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Mike M" wrote in message ... (I HATE the Symantec site - it's a nightmare to find anything, and all the b&&&dy links have to be checked!) Which is why I have been sitting here for the last hour or so watching you answer the question. Symantec's site is just like their products - total cr$p. -- Mike Noel Paton wrote: ooops! - Symantec in their infinite wisdom have broken their own link to the RNAV2003 tool on that page.... look here if you need it http://service1.symantec.com/support...6?opendocument You may also need to use the SYMClean utility to get rid of the remains of NSW files for pre-2003 versions http://service1.symantec.com/support...01101612274407 (I HATE the Symantec site - it's a nightmare to find anything, and all the b&&&dy links have to be checked!) |
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Noel Paton wrote:
...'morning Mike! I did wonder how come you'd not chimed in before It's been so long since I had anything to do with Norton on a Win9x system, I'd forgotten how bad the site actually was, and their internal search engine is totally useless. For future reference, the best way I've found for searching the site is to use Google with the site:symantec.com switch - although I haven't tried 'bing' yet. (I must admit it was a surprise when MS announced bing - I've always used it as an acronym for BootItNG, and sorta assumed that terabytesunlimited had acquired the domains) BING is a trademark of terabyteunlimiited and I understand that they have consulted lawyers but know nothing more. I'm guessing that it will be the usual big company small company thing with Microsoft winning for no other reason than that they have the money to throw at it. -- Mike |
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Use 'Super-Shredder'..... thats where norton belongs!!!
What possessed you to put Norton on your machine anyway? "candle" wrote in message ... this is for Mike M..hopefully you are reading this. since you mentioned to Missy, that Norton Antivirus is the worst for ME..(i agree)..have both and nothing but trouble.. can you suggest how i can delete Norton/Symantec and all files that Norton 'virus-es' into the system so you cannot delete or uninstall. have tried to uninstall, but b/c it has a recycle bin protection(it latches itself onto the recycle bin for backup protection)..since i sent all Norton's files into that bin, it will not let sytem's "empty recycle bin" access them in order to clear the Bin. Norton is protecting it's files by sharing the Bin's .exe file and now i cannot open the Bin unless i rt.click and choose 'open'. once 'open', though, it still cannot be emptied. Am trying to clean out old Me computer files, including Norton Internet Security '07 -- GBA |
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