Laptop anti virus

salli9

I have Norton's on my PC and laptop. It seems to be slowing laptop down, would it be ok to uninstall it from lapstop and download Avast or AVG.
Thanks

intel

Yes just make sure you download the new AV and firewall first, go offline then uninstall
Norton and then install the new software... I suggest....


http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm as a free firewall.

Make sure Norton has gone totally

Please wait for more answers

Browntoa

yep...I'm with intel on this one

and out of choice I prefer AVG...

zacspeed_2

You'd be best off re-loading windows if you want to be rid of Norton properly.

Browntoa

or do something less extreme like use these tools from Nortons site if the uninstall fails

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039?Open&src=&docid=2004093015165236&nsf=tsgeninfo.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

never known a Pc where I've needed to reload windows to get rid of Nortons

salli9

Thanks, didn't fancy to re loading Windows.

Browntoa

just go to Add/Remove programs in Control Panel and it's all listed there....one bit is called "LiveUpdate" all the others have norton in the name....just remove each bit and it should all go with no problems

salli9

Cheers, that sounds easy enough for me to cope with.

zacspeed_2

Browntoa wrote:

or do something less extreme like use these tools from Nortons site if the uninstall fails

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039?Open&src=&docid=2004093015165236&nsf=tsgeninfo.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

never known a Pc where I've needed to reload windows to get rid of Nortons

The $ymantec removal tool has NEVER worked for me, that's why I suggested the above.
But then, what do I know?

Ganyam

Running NIS2006 on desktop, doesn't slow it down what so ever, did have it on my laptop, which was slow, it is an old laptop though... Decided it was time to wipe it, reinstalled windows and tried avg and zone alarm, the !!!!!!s just as slow, cant see any difference in the speed........

salli9

No it's 2 months old, and slowed down when Norton was installed.