2006-10-04 04:48:21 · 8 answers · asked by johnny 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I have the same thing happens to my machine on start up. It only occurred after I had installed XP Service Pack 2. It is related to the new soooper dooooper Microsoft Security package. I run Bull Guard 6 as my security (highly recommended, by the way) and this gets launched soon after start up. But not before MS tries to sell me their offering. Don't worry about it, just do not connect to the Internet until Norton is up and running.
2006-10-05 00:27:55 · answer #1 · answered by sananabetahi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine does the same, but seems to be ok when it's finished booting. It's as if Norton is at the end of the queue in the startup list??!! If you check after a couple of minutes it should all be ok.
2006-10-04 05:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by jayktee96 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norton is garbage. I've used it for many years and saw tons of wierd problems like that with it. We're currently using it also on my corporate server and it has bizarre warnings.
Switch to either McAfee or Avast (free and good!).
2006-10-04 06:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by Bernz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-26 09:22:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could have a malware infection displaying a bogus message to entice you into downloading more malware. Scan with the utilities you already have/trust.
Spybot S&D and Windows Defender work for me, and they are both free.
2006-10-04 04:56:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had this one unfortunately (one of the reasons I switched to McAfee) It has to do with registry issues and you will need to contact Symantec help desk to get the actual fix (fyi It took almost 3 hours of online chat, reboots and regedits!!!)
2006-10-04 04:52:29 · answer #6 · answered by txengineer762 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try uninstalling and reinstalling Norton...it's such a poor program.
2006-10-04 04:50:10 · answer #7 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
disable those pointless balloon popups you get on xp which are probably at fault, by downloading tweaking xp.
2006-10-04 04:58:18 · answer #8 · answered by rheckels 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋