BleepingComputer.com: How To Remove Your Norton Products

peter41, on Nov 10 2006, 05:33 PM, said:

I used them all.

If you had read my post you would have learned that they do a very poor job.

This post has been edited by scratcher: 11 November 2006 - 12:05 AM

I just used the removal tools at the top of the page,(NAV/NIS/2003 and it is a life saver. Worked easy and as far as I can tell it did the job.
Installed Kaspersky 6.0 internet security.

Hey. Well, I'm hopeful that this situation can be resolved w/ Symantec/Norton...I could scream and claw my face over this tsuris. Oy! Who needs such aggravation? I'll get back to you and tell all. Thanks.
-Neddy

This post has been edited by Neddy_Ludd: 05 March 2007 - 10:08 AM

A few yrs ago I inadvertently included a hacked version of NSW in a e-mail folder, some time later I received an email from my ISP telling me than symantec was pissed that I was uploading illegal products and that I should probly stop doing that. I checked with the symantic site for updates and found that they had banned me from there updating service. Not wanting to have a multi million dollar company upset with me (lol) I immediately went thru the painstaking process of removing Norton from my computer (all regedit manual removal). Within 1 day of the ISP warning I started receiving spam, junk mail, and easily catchable virus's in my email account's. After 3 or 4 yrs i am still receiving up to 1000 a week, my email account has become some what of a house hold joke as i just open my email, select all and delete once a week my wife however is on the same network as me and receives none of these emails (or very few). My question to you is how do I stop this (the joke is getting boring) and is it just coincidence or is symantec sending these?? Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks Mmurlan

can you not just change e-mail address?

mz30, on Apr 28 2007, 01:12 PM, said:

I tried that several times and the problem seems to follow me around on whatever address I use.

Thank you, Thank you. I signed into BC specifically to find out how to exorcise Norton. I found your solution without even having to post the question.

Norton Internet Security 2008 is a good upgrade for NIS 2007 and NIS 2006. It seems to be less of a system hog and includes better and new protection; for anyone who still uses Norton/Symantec.

This post has been edited by SpySentinel: 22 September 2007 - 06:46 PM

ty leathalbannana and all others. you took the fear out of this removal. im free (RAM)!!!

If you not planning to reinstall symantic products, I found some issues and other folders and files that need to go.

C:\PROGRA~1\SYMNET~1\SNDMon.exe /Consumer

C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\AXXPEE.dll

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WholeSecurity

also if you used the anti spam w/Yahoo email you might have issues when deleting some folders after a search for "norton".
i had to first go to Yahoo email and insure the norton anti spam folder is empty. then delete the stubburn folder in your "norton" search. then go to you email and edit out (delete) the "norton" anti spam folder. since norton accepts hotmail, something similar may need to be done there to.

your also going to find the SymNRT in the registry. unfortunatly i did not take note of where it was before i deleted the key. sorry.

please some one who is more knowledgable ck this info. that could be most anyone here.

igo

I found this Symantec: Norton Internet Security version Comparison chart:

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Number of downloads: 120

I went to the Download and run the Norton Removal Tool and there is a warning:

'The Norton Removal Tool uninstalls all Norton 2008/2007/2006/2005/2004/2003 products and Norton 360 from your computer. If you use ACT! or WinFAX, back up those databases before you proceed.'

I did a search files and folders and found winfax.dll. I clicked on it and got a 'Caution: ...These files are used by he operating system and by various programs. Editing or modifying them could damage your system.'

Needless to say, not knowing much about the inner workings of my pc, I am concerned to do anything that might mess things up.

Please help me!!!! I've deleted things from my old pc and had errors afterwards about not being able to locate certain dll files.

My pc has Norton Internet Security 2005 that was bundled with my HP Pavilion notebook and has expired.

Hi there

Hope you can help! I bought a new laptop and it came with a trial version of Norton installed. I haven't actually activated anything. I would like to get rid of it, but am very nervous of messing with the registry. How do I back up the registry, and more important, how do I restore it if needs be?

Thanks

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Demystifying the Windows Registry The preceding link will help you understand and likely answer your questions.

I've read most of the articles you have all posted, I have norton internet security 2006 and also the live update from symatec installed on my pc and the virus protection has expired, so i would like to remove all the norton software and install a new AV. But what steps do i actually need to take to complete this without damaging anything else. Do you have to backup the registry? And also what files need to be protected when using the removal tool. If someone could break this down for me i would be very thankful.

Also does anyone use avast antivirus 4.8 or know if its any good?

SoakGame101, on Jul 18 2008, 04:35 PM, said:

I disconected from the internet and switched off my resident spyware and all other applications that i could, then ran the removal tool. ALWAYS back up the registry before editing it (i do it twice a week using a cd-rw just in case, takes 5 mins) i never protected any files but i had a recent back up to fall back on. Im now reinstalling internet security 2008 after using- AVG 8 paid version and Comodo pro freeware firewall. I found AVG just as system hungary as norton it slowed my pc down even more (with only 1GB of RAM i cant afford a bloated security system which doesnt even have a firewall ! . Comodo and Zonealarm (tried both) its easier training a blind 6 week old puppy....lol