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Norton Disables During Windows Update But then turns back on a couple days later???

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  Posted 04 September 2009 - 07:39 PM

All right, so one Wednesday night I was fidgeting with my home computer, getting on the Internet etc. It took me a little while to realize that Norton was turned off. I was kind of worried because it might have turned off for a malware/whatever reason. So I clicked on the Norton icon in the tray and it said that there were 0 days remaining for subscription. In reality, there were about 260 days left until the subscription expired. I freaked out and called my dad and etc, but nothing else weird was going on. A couple days later the subscription days left were back to normal, and Norton was protecting our computer again. :thumbsup:

A few weeks later, on a Wednesday night, it happened again. With the information we had, we decided that Windows does updates on Wednesday nights. But does Norton shut itself off and reset itself a day or two later after updates are done? Does this normally happen with Norton, or is the home computer just messed up? OS is XP. I am almost positive there isn't any malware floating around because we scan with Malwarebytes' and Spybot on a regular basis and they never find anything.

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Posted 05 September 2009 - 01:47 AM

Norton is recommended by Microsoft, but, its not fully with Microsoft, so it aint going to stay up with the updates.
Itll shut everything, and i do mean EVERYTHING that is not Microsoft related. So norton is either updating itself or its just playing buggy...
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