Dumping Norton

[Ken L]

My subscription to Norton IS is up next month and I've decided to dump it in favour of AVG.

Will I be OK with a simple run ththrough "Addor remove programs" and delete the Norton/Symantec stuff or if it more nasty and insidious than that ?

[ayjay]

Very similar question came up on here yesterday Ken, probably not as simple as it should be, but there's some links on there to Norton uninstall progs.

[Steve Walker]

I uninstalled everything Norton-related from the Add/Remove Programs dialog and installed AVG. I doubt that I've got rid of all traces, but to all intents and purposes it seems to have gone. There are no processes I recognise as Norton running.

[John E Ashford]

My subscription to Norton IS is up next month and I've decided to dump it in favour of AVG.

Will I be OK with a simple run ththrough "Addor remove programs" and delete the Norton/Symantec stuff or if it more nasty and insidious than that ?

 

Hi Ken L

 

I did exactly what you want to do and have/had no problems.

 

Good by and good ridence to Norton/Symantec stuff, long live AVG.

[Ken L]

Cheers guys. Its paid for upto 06.11.06 so I'll leave it till the weekend before that, do a final Norton virus check and then good riddence.

[captain cojones]

i doubt if you will miss it ken

cheers dave (another ex norton user)

[peterpikefisher]

I uninstalled everything Norton-related from the Add/Remove Programs dialog and installed AVG. I doubt that I've got rid of all traces, but to all intents and purposes it seems to have gone. There are no processes I recognise as Norton running.

 

if you want to get rid of all traces use a prog like destroy it 2000

. do the add/remove thing then run destroy it click the file relating to Norton then shred it ,

restart then you should have gotten rid of all traces.

 

i use destroy it to get free agv spy/addware all the time after the free period is up uninstall then shred the file restart then install start free period again.

 

 

 

good luck.

[RobStubbs]

My ex had Norton and her PC pretty much blew up in the week. Turns out it had 500 infected files and windows was terminally corrupted. She's now going with Panda once the PC is fully repaired.

 

I use AVG, never had any problems.

 

Rob.

[DrDoug]

Stupid question to follow!

 

 

What is AVG ?

 

Cheers

[Peter Sharpe]

Stupid question to follow!

What is AVG ?

 

Cheers

 

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/products-avg-an...ng/us/tpl/tpl01