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#501 Unread post by jonnythan »

blues2cruise wrote:I uninstalled Norton. However...there are still a few files that won't allow me to delete. The Symantec updater icon on the control page won't delete either.

I have now downloaded ACG trial version of their newest....It's a 30 day trial to see if I like it.
If you go AVG, I strongly recommend their free product over their pay product. The free product is less intrusive and, frankly, better.
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jonnythan wrote:
blues2cruise wrote:I uninstalled Norton. However...there are still a few files that won't allow me to delete. The Symantec updater icon on the control page won't delete either.

I have now downloaded ACG trial version of their newest....It's a 30 day trial to see if I like it.
If you go AVG, I strongly recommend their free product over their pay product. The free product is less intrusive and, frankly, better.
Thank you for the info. I'll try this for a few days to see what it is like. So far there are too many popups with warnings.....ggrrrrr. I'll have to disable that feature.
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#503 Unread post by ofblong »

blues2cruise wrote:I uninstalled Norton. However...there are still a few files that won't allow me to delete. The Symantec updater icon on the control page won't delete either.

I have now downloaded ACG trial version of their newest....It's a 30 day trial to see if I like it.
download ccleaner. have it check the registry. AFter it checks SAVE A BACKUP (it asks you if you want to) then delete all "instances". You can also go into the tools portion and find anything about norton and it will uninstall it.

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#504 Unread post by tymanthius »

Norton also sometimes has multiple bits in Add/Remove Programs (inside control panel). Make sure you've run all the uninstalls for the AV, the LiveUpdate, and whatever else Norton/Symantec have in there.
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#505 Unread post by ofblong »

tymanthius wrote:Norton also sometimes has multiple bits in Add/Remove Programs (inside control panel). Make sure you've run all the uninstalls for the AV, the LiveUpdate, and whatever else Norton/Symantec have in there.
it also doesnt show you all the possible add/removes you can do. Thats why I use ccleaner.
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That's why I like Linux so much better. Unfortunately, I have a bad mbrd in this pc & so Ubuntu refused to install.

But windows doesn't care, except for the odd error now & again. I need more $$$ to support my toys!!!

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tymanthius wrote:That's why I like Linux so much better. Unfortunately, I have a bad mbrd in this pc & so Ubuntu refused to install.

But windows doesn't care, except for the odd error now & again. I need more $$$ to support my toys!!!

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Any Linux program could make itself just as obscenely difficult to uninstall as Norton does on Windows.
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#508 Unread post by blues2cruise »

Well....the full blown version of AVG was hopeless. I uninstalled it less than a week into the trial period.
It made my computer almost non functional for how slow it was. The computer was freezing up and getting hung up...websites would not ope..etc. etc.

I uninstalled it and am now using the free version. I will see how it goes for a few days. So far it is far better than the pay for version.
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#509 Unread post by ofblong »

blues2cruise wrote:Well....the full blown version of AVG was hopeless. I uninstalled it less than a week into the trial period.
It made my computer almost non functional for how slow it was. The computer was freezing up and getting hung up...websites would not ope..etc. etc.

I uninstalled it and am now using the free version. I will see how it goes for a few days. So far it is far better than the pay for version.
Thats why we said the free version :D.
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#510 Unread post by dr_bar »

I'm using Computer Associates Anti Virus, seems to be working great at least it's not nortons invasive crap...
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