norton and system restore

recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton to
do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one but
thank god it's been sorted
--
martyb

If you want to avoid problems with your system, remove Norton and get AVAST
or AVG FREE for your system. Norton hogs resources and is nasty.

"marty" <> wrote in message
news:F1ACA6AE-80AA-4E32-A8C0-...
> recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton
> to
> do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
> without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
> undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one
> but
> thank god it's been sorted
> --
> martyb

don't worry it will be going the distance as soon as my remaining 213days of
my subsciption have been used but i feel i paid too much to just ditch it and
waste half my money I think next time i will use avgfree for virus protection
windows firewall and defender will this suffice for a normal home user? any
thoughts?
ink
--
martyb


"Bill Yanaire" wrote:

> If you want to avoid problems with your system, remove Norton and get AVAST
> or AVG FREE for your system. Norton hogs resources and is nasty.
>
> "marty" <> wrote in message
> news:F1ACA6AE-80AA-4E32-A8C0-...
> > recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton
> > to
> > do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
> > without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
> > undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one
> > but
> > thank god it's been sorted
> > --
> > martyb
>
>
>

Even though you paid for the subscription, why keep something on your
computer that constantly slows you down, causes problems, damages files,
etc... Just chalk it up to lifes experiences.

You will be happier in the long run.


"marty" <> wrote in message
news:6D184715-0828-4B04-A784-...
> don't worry it will be going the distance as soon as my remaining 213days
> of
> my subsciption have been used but i feel i paid too much to just ditch it
> and
> waste half my money I think next time i will use avgfree for virus
> protection
> windows firewall and defender will this suffice for a normal home user?
> any
> thoughts?
> ink
> --
> martyb
>
>
> "Bill Yanaire" wrote:
>
>> If you want to avoid problems with your system, remove Norton and get
>> AVAST
>> or AVG FREE for your system. Norton hogs resources and is nasty.
>>
>> "marty" <> wrote in message
>> news:F1ACA6AE-80AA-4E32-A8C0-...
>> > recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable
>> > norton
>> > to
>> > do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a
>> > restore
>> > without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the
>> > restore
>> > undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec
>> > one
>> > but
>> > thank god it's been sorted
>> > --
>> > martyb
>>
>>
>>

yeah i know what you're saying and you're logic is verging on vulcan ,can i
use it on my sons pc that he uses chiefly for games or just bin it and what
do you think of my choices for when i do get rid ?
--
martyb


"Bill Yanaire" wrote:

> Even though you paid for the subscription, why keep something on your
> computer that constantly slows you down, causes problems, damages files,
> etc... Just chalk it up to lifes experiences.
>
> You will be happier in the long run.
>
>
> "marty" <> wrote in message
> news:6D184715-0828-4B04-A784-...
> > don't worry it will be going the distance as soon as my remaining 213days
> > of
> > my subsciption have been used but i feel i paid too much to just ditch it
> > and
> > waste half my money I think next time i will use avgfree for virus
> > protection
> > windows firewall and defender will this suffice for a normal home user?
> > any
> > thoughts?
> > ink
> > --
> > martyb
> >
> >
> > "Bill Yanaire" wrote:
> >
> >> If you want to avoid problems with your system, remove Norton and get
> >> AVAST
> >> or AVG FREE for your system. Norton hogs resources and is nasty.
> >>
> >> "marty" <> wrote in message
> >> news:F1ACA6AE-80AA-4E32-A8C0-...
> >> > recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable
> >> > norton
> >> > to
> >> > do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a
> >> > restore
> >> > without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the
> >> > restore
> >> > undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec
> >> > one
> >> > but
> >> > thank god it's been sorted
> >> > --
> >> > martyb
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

You were lucky this time. Here is Symantec's take on this

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html

--
Peter

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"marty" <> wrote in message news:F1ACA6AE-80AA-4E32-A8C0-...
> recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton to
> do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
> without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
> undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one but
> thank god it's been sorted
> --
> martyb

So the best thing to do is remove Norton and go to a better solution: AVAST
or AVG Free.


"Peter Foldes" <> wrote in message
news:...
You were lucky this time. Here is Symantec's take on this

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html

--
Peter

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"marty" <> wrote in message
news:F1ACA6AE-80AA-4E32-A8C0-...
> recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton
> to
> do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
> without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
> undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one
> but
> thank god it's been sorted
> --
> martyb

marty wrote:
> recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton to
> do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
> without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
> undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one but
> thank god it's been sorted
>
the issue is with Product Protection being enabled in Norton; not if the
virus protection is on or not.

Hi Marty,

Restoring the system in normal mode Resource Protection on, may not fail
every time. Give it time.

System Restore will fail to complete a restore in normal mode if the
following conditions are true:

* Symantec Resource Protection is turned on within the Norton application.
* System Restore finds missing or changed monitored files, or registry
changes related to the protected Norton application.

Symantec Resource Protection prevents modification or deletion of Symantec
files, processes, and registry keys by unauthorized applications. System
Restore is considered to be an unauthorized applications and Symantec will
cause the system restore to fail.

If no changes were made to the Norton application after a given restore
point is created, the restore should complete successfully in normal mode
with Resource Protection turned on.

System Restore should complete successfully when Resource Protection is
turned off in normal mode, or in Safe Mode. At present Resource Protection
is automatically disabled in Safe Mode.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org


marty wrote:
> recently i was told by a friend that you no longer have to disable norton to
> do a system restore so i thought i would check on this by doing a restore
> without disabling norton and sure enough it worked fine as did the restore
> undo feature .I don't know if it is a microsoft update or a symantec one but
> thank god it's been sorted