Nortons AntiVirus

I can't turn it on!!! Nowwhere can I enable it. HELP!

NEED HELP WITH NORTONS wrote:
> I can't turn it on!!! Nowwhere can I enable it. HELP!

Welcome to "Microsoft Public Newsgroup for Windows Update".

As your problem seems to be with a Norton/Symantec product - I highly
suggest you contact the appropriate people (Symantec) for your support.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

"NEED HELP WITH NORTONS" <NEED HELP WITH >
wrote in message news:E35B4679-EA70-4E59-9810-...
>I can't turn it on!!! Nowwhere can I enable it. HELP!
>
The retail version is awful and can play havoc to your pc.
Do yourself a favour and proceed as per:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...05033108162039

As suggested on the site, you may wish to print out the directions
before proceeding.

A really great alternative is:
Avira AntiVir® PersonalEdition Classic
http://www.free-av.com/antivirus/allinonen.html

Good luck

"Shenan Stanley" <> wrote in message
news:...
> NEED HELP WITH NORTONS wrote:
>> I can't turn it on!!! Nowwhere can I enable it. HELP!
>
> Welcome to "Microsoft Public Newsgroup for Windows Update".
>
> As your problem seems to be with a Norton/Symantec product - I highly
> suggest you contact the appropriate people (Symantec) for your support.
>
oh well, give him some slack...we all know that Symantec support is
virtually non-existent.
Peace....

Hi,

Symantec have a Live Help feature, but cannot give you the exact URL as you
never wrote your product version

There is also a forum too for EndPoint Security where Symantec employees help
answer questions:

https://forums.symantec.com/syment/b...d=endpointcust

Officially it's for Enterprise (Corporate) products but you may want to try

Home Support list:

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoff...product_ts.jsp

Unable to turn on Auto Protect after updating virus defs:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...f?OpenDocument

--
Newbie Coder
(It's just a name)


"NEED HELP WITH NORTONS" <NEED HELP WITH >
wrote in message news:E35B4679-EA70-4E59-9810-...
> I can't turn it on!!! Nowwhere can I enable it. HELP!

I'm not a tech, just an ordinary user. Why not save yourself some
money and trouble? Download AVG Free Anti-Virus from grisoft.com.
Norton has a history of interfering with Windows settings.


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 00:07:28 -0500, "Shenan Stanley"
<> wrote:

|NEED HELP WITH NORTONS wrote:
|> I can't turn it on!!! Nowwhere can I enable it. HELP!
|
|Welcome to "Microsoft Public Newsgroup for Windows Update".
|
|As your problem seems to be with a Norton/Symantec product - I highly
|suggest you contact the appropriate people (Symantec) for your support.
|
|--
|Shenan Stanley
| MS-MVP

Hi there,


If your AV program is not to be anabled I suspect you have a virus or other
malware on your computer, so run some tools to check this: do a online scan
fotr virusses adn use something like www.hitmanpro.nl to scan for other
garbage.

@Lady Dungeness:

How come I am using NAV for over 5 years and do not have ay problems with it
or windows?

I believe this is not an exception to the rule but the rule its self, the
excpetion are the people behind the computers who install all kinds of
garbage and expecting everything to just run fine to my humble opinion

Best regards,
Michel Denie



<> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm not a tech, just an ordinary user. Why not save yourself some
> money and trouble? Download AVG Free Anti-Virus from grisoft.com.
> Norton has a history of interfering with Windows settings.
>
>
> Lady Dungeness
> Crabby, but Great Legs!
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 00:07:28 -0500, "Shenan Stanley"
> <> wrote:
>
> |NEED HELP WITH NORTONS wrote:
> |> I can't turn it on!!! Nowwhere can I enable it. HELP!
> |
> |Welcome to "Microsoft Public Newsgroup for Windows Update".
> |
> |As your problem seems to be with a Norton/Symantec product - I highly
> |suggest you contact the appropriate people (Symantec) for your support.
> |
> |--
> |Shenan Stanley
> | MS-MVP

realcestmoi wrote:
<snip>
> How come I am using NAV for over 5 years and do not have ay
> problems with it or windows?
>
> I believe this is not an exception to the rule but the rule its
> self, the excpetion are the people behind the computers who install
> all kinds of garbage and expecting everything to just run fine to
> my humble opinion
<snip>

And you are welcomed to your opinion...

Norton Antivirus, alone, is not all that bad. It still uses more resources
than many other antivirus applications that do the same or better job - but
it does function well most of the time. It is the all-in-one solution
suites from Symantec one should stay away from - they just don't give the
protection the hogging of resources would lead one to believe and their
removal and configuration can be daunting - even for the most experienced of
computer user.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Hi there,



People make choices in their lives, I choose the full Norton suite among
with some other programs I like and okay deinstalling Norton Systemworks can
be tricky but up till now I managed to uninstall it even manually by editing
the registry and reinstalling it without any problems after that.



But you are right it is not a program for a non skilled computer user.



And about functioning well sometimes: the same thing goes for any windows
version if else this newsgroup and many other MS software newsgroups would
not have to be here



I think that is quite normal though, you can not expect a 130 dollars or
less costing OS to be tested with each peace of software there is on the
market If the really did that type of testing than by the time it would be
able to come on the market it already would be outdated



Just my two cents



Best regards,

Michel Denie







"Shenan Stanley" <> wrote in message
news:...
> realcestmoi wrote:
> <snip>
>> How come I am using NAV for over 5 years and do not have ay
>> problems with it or windows?
>>
>> I believe this is not an exception to the rule but the rule its
>> self, the excpetion are the people behind the computers who install
>> all kinds of garbage and expecting everything to just run fine to
>> my humble opinion
> <snip>
>
> And you are welcomed to your opinion...
>
> Norton Antivirus, alone, is not all that bad. It still uses more
> resources than many other antivirus applications that do the same or
> better job - but it does function well most of the time. It is the
> all-in-one solution suites from Symantec one should stay away from - they
> just don't give the protection the hogging of resources would lead one to
> believe and their removal and configuration can be daunting - even for the
> most experienced of computer user.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

See my other post on this thread

A Norton article shows a way of fixing it

--
Newbie Coder
(It's just a name)



"realcestmoi" <> wrote in message
news:eMOpxo%...
> Hi there,
>
>
>
> People make choices in their lives, I choose the full Norton suite among
> with some other programs I like and okay deinstalling Norton Systemworks can
> be tricky but up till now I managed to uninstall it even manually by editing
> the registry and reinstalling it without any problems after that.
>
>
>
> But you are right it is not a program for a non skilled computer user.
>
>
>
> And about functioning well sometimes: the same thing goes for any windows
> version if else this newsgroup and many other MS software newsgroups would
> not have to be here
>
>
>
> I think that is quite normal though, you can not expect a 130 dollars or
> less costing OS to be tested with each peace of software there is on the
> market If the really did that type of testing than by the time it would be
> able to come on the market it already would be outdated
>
>
>
> Just my two cents
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michel Denie
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Shenan Stanley" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > realcestmoi wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> How come I am using NAV for over 5 years and do not have ay
> >> problems with it or windows?
> >>
> >> I believe this is not an exception to the rule but the rule its
> >> self, the excpetion are the people behind the computers who install
> >> all kinds of garbage and expecting everything to just run fine to
> >> my humble opinion
> > <snip>
> >
> > And you are welcomed to your opinion...
> >
> > Norton Antivirus, alone, is not all that bad. It still uses more
> > resources than many other antivirus applications that do the same or
> > better job - but it does function well most of the time. It is the
> > all-in-one solution suites from Symantec one should stay away from - they
> > just don't give the protection the hogging of resources would lead one to
> > believe and their removal and configuration can be daunting - even for the
> > most experienced of computer user.
> >
> > --
> > Shenan Stanley
> > MS-MVP
> > --
> > How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> >
>
>