reply to Symantec post earlier

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There has been a spate of new viruses over the last week or two, Jane.
More than that, I can't tell you--except that I consider your logic re
Symantec illogical. Regardless of how much money you spent on it, why
run an app that buggers your system? Especially when another $20 will
get you EZ Armor for the first year ($30 to renew.)

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"jane" <jane@internet.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> havent seen much input regarding the symantec drama of late.
> Not sure if it is my server or if the topic just peter'ed out.
> Anyway, if anyone is interested, my Norton Virus Update
> pop-up has been happening on a nearly " 3 times per 24 hours "
> in the last week....... I am actually doing another as I type.
> Is this something to do with their security "lack" , and they are
> frantically trying to overcome it?
>
> Yes, I know it is sad that I utilize Norton, but as I said before in
> another post,,,,,,, I have already paid for it so I may as
well
> see it through. Then again, I dont have a single virus on
my
> comp, so either there are no virii out there or something is doing
> its job.
>
> Anyway, the gist here is my noticing that I have had Updates coming
> out of the waaazooo, are these some sort of counter-measure against
> whatever infiltration Norton has suffered in the last fortnight?
>
> regards Jane
>
>

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jane wrote:
> Hi all,
> havent seen much input regarding the symantec drama of late.
> Not sure if it is my server or if the topic just peter'ed out.
> Anyway, if anyone is interested, my Norton Virus Update
> pop-up has been happening on a nearly " 3 times per 24 hours "
> in the last week....... I am actually doing another as I type.
> Is this something to do with their security "lack" , and they are
> frantically trying to overcome it?
>

My Avast! updated its defs twice in four hours one evening last week. I
just think there are a few new bogeymen out at the moment.


--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.judgemental.plus.com

<reply-to will bounce>

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hi jane
I had Norton AV 2003. Kept on using it since I "paid for it". But something went wrong in the updates about 3 months
ago. The Symantec Redirector upgrade would not finish installing. I had to reboot to get out of the lockup.Since then I
could no longer connect to receive further updates. I removed Norton & then reinstalled it. Still unable to connect to
get any upgrades or virus definitions. Neverless Norton popped up dialogs about getting updates which I was unable to
connect to get.

Finally I removed Norton again and installed AVG Anti-virus. Removing all of Norton was tricky. The regualr uninstall
from add-remove programs was successful. However it left the malfunctioning Symantec redirector and some other symantec
programs on my system. I deleted these files and rebooted. Got an error that a VxD program expected a DLL. I went in the
registry, founf the VxD reference, and deleted it and deleted the VxD file. Rebooted and got a message that the VxD
could not be found. Went in the registry and deleted the reference to it. Reboot finally was rid of all Norton-Symantec.

Perhaps you need to reinstall Norton afresh after completely removing it as I described.


"jane" <jane@internet.com> wrote in message news:uMHDgpqFFHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
> havent seen much input regarding the symantec drama of late.
> Not sure if it is my server or if the topic just peter'ed out.
> Anyway, if anyone is interested, my Norton Virus Update
> pop-up has been happening on a nearly " 3 times per 24 hours "
> in the last week....... I am actually doing another as I type.
> Is this something to do with their security "lack" , and they are
> frantically trying to overcome it?
>
> Yes, I know it is sad that I utilize Norton, but as I said before in
> another post,,,,,,, I have already paid for it so I may as well
> see it through. Then again, I dont have a single virus on my
> comp, so either there are no virii out there or something is doing
> its job.
>
> Anyway, the gist here is my noticing that I have had Updates coming
> out of the waaazooo, are these some sort of counter-measure against
> whatever infiltration Norton has suffered in the last fortnight?
>
> regards Jane
>
>