I am trying to figure out how to uninstall Norton. please help as I tried to do add/remove programs already?

Answer 1

I had to go to the Nortons homepage and find the removal tool. It will remove 2003-2007 fast and easy. It is less than one MB d/l.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/20050331081620392007.
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Answer 2

In my spare time I like to test antivirus/antispyware software to see if they perform as claimed and if there are any embedded malware in the program or the wizard installer used to quide you through the installation.

One big hell of a mistake when I test Nortons. It was almost impossible to remove. I did manage so I thought with add/remove some of Nortons.

What I had left was over 350 fragments glued to all my files/folders and hidden all over my system that caused serious conflict with my entire system.

Lucky, I have a purchased program from http://www.rosecitysoftware.com Download their Registry First Aid. During the evaluation period you can remove all of Nortons and the fragments if you are smart and follow my instructions.

RFA will make a back up first of your entire system before it scans. Your first scan will be "Check registry for errors". Delete everything checked marked next to green yellow and red boxes. Don't worry about the red box as you have a backup.

I have used program for over nine years an it never has removed a good registry key.

Now Here is the hard part.

In the program you will see many options to search. You want to open "Search the registry".

1. Type in "symantec", click on add and symantec will drop down into the area where the scan will take place.

2. Delete at the top symantec and type in "nortons" click on add and nortons will drop into the area for scan.

3. Now scan. Everything in your registry related to symantec and nortons will appear.

4. You will see a thick arrow pointing down on the right side of each description of the registry key. Left click with your mouse so that it will open and drop down to where it says "cut registry string".

5. Perform this with each an every registry key related to symantec & nortons.

6. When this is completed you will have a backup of all cut registry strings. You can find them at start, search files, type in: "backups", scan your system. You will see RFA backups at the top open and there are the cut registry keys. You don't want to restore them just delete them.

7. Perform the same procedure with search files, only this time type in: "nortons", and scan. Remove all files that you can. Next type in "symantec", scan and remove all files.

Now reboot your system.

After you reboot your system open start, run: type in "symantec" click on browse, click on program files and look at all your files and you should see "symantec". Then delete the file. And reboot again.

This will clean out Nortons. Never use this junk as it is a real ripp off. Plus it will find nothing, big resource hog and cause you tons of grief.

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Here is the link:

http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp?

Minddoctor, France

Answer 3

I had a similar problem with my wonderful Dell computer that did not have a "C" drive. For some reason my Dell has a "F" drive. Thankfully one of the great "Geeks" from the "Geek Squad" took pity on me and loaned me a floppy that was able to "remove" the program at no charge to me (I had purchased a different anti-virus program from them :) .
But you may want to look at you local Drive... and see if that is your problem. If so... maybe the people at your computer manufacturer will help. Or if they know the problem is that maybe Norton can instruct you haow to proceed. Good luck.

Answer 4

Add/Remove won't do it. I tried and tried and tried. I finally went to the Norton Website and stumbled on to their solution as to how to un-install. You must print it out, and also print out what to do if you get a window saying "Updates are running".
with patience you can do it, but I bit all my fingernails in the process. Following the print-out, you can go through the steps one by one and finally get rid of the darned thing.

Has Norton gone subersive, or what ?????????

Answer 5

if you have windows xp boot into safe mode by pressing F8 repeatedly when booting.. then when you enter safe mode go to the install/uninstall in the control panel and remove anything that says Symantec or Norton there may be a few of each and they may have to be done in a certain order so if one does not want to remove try onother... when all are removed re-boot normally

Answer 6

start-run. it will bring up a little dialogue window. type in "regedit" then a window for the registry editor will come up. go to edit-find, type in Norton and it will search for the next entry. hit delete on the keyboard then enter. it will delete the entry from your registry. hit F-2 to find the next entry. and repeat the process until it says windows has finished searching the registry. repeat the steps above but find Symantec. it's a long process but it will take all of norton out of your computer.
good luck

Answer 7

Norton has it's own uninstall program.

Are you saying that it's still running? Did you re-boot?

Answer 8

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Answer 9

you can go into your registry but you must be very careful not to delete any .dll files to do this go to run and type in REGEDIT then when in press F3 and search Norton first then search Symantec and then Internet Security that should clear it out

Answer 10

Search remove norton antivirus in your address bar.


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