topic Re: Norton Internet Security removal in PCs & Accessories

Norton Internet Security removal

newsnorky — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:15:29 GMT

Hi Guys!! Does anyone have an idea of how to remove the Norton Internet Security 2004 that I found already on my Vaio?? The program is not on the DVD supplied and when I try to removed it, it's asking for the program of installation to do it!!! Any pratical good solution? I would appreciate. Ciao:smileysad:

Re: Norton Internet Security removal

Wusel — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:32:37 GMT

There is a way but it's not the clean one.
First go to the Taskmanager and quit all task and services which are
related to NIS.
Then you can remove the Folder of NIS (C:\Programme or C:\Program Files)
The you schould run a Registry Cleaner like Klick

to remove the dead entrys
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Always back up your registry before doing that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now you could take a look in msconfig ( Start -> Run -> msconfig)
and look at the 2 last tabs and remove everything related to NIS

make a restart and it schould be gone.

Re: Norton Internet Security removal

kee-lo_ — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:22:44 GMT

I just used add/remove software.
Got rid of NAV too, which is good.

Re: Norton Internet Security removal

rich912 — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:28:48 GMT

Kee-Lo, what do you dislike about Norton products?

Re: Norton Internet Security removal

kee-lo_ — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:59:24 GMT

The resource hogging they do, also they're no better than AVG or ZoneAlarm at their job.

Re: Norton Internet Security removal

rich912 — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:38:50 GMT

ZoneAlarm caused problems for me with P2P so I reverted to Norton.

Re: Norton Internet Security removal

kee-lo_ — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:09:19 GMT

Depends on what you do.