How To Check Norton Has Gone On Windows 8?

Luckyone

Hello there,

new laptop has arrived & I have added the following security:

Malewarebytes Paid for version
Avira Free Version
Online Armor Free Version

CCleaner to run every week or so
Superantispywear to run every week or so

This laptop has come with Norton installed as I had a warning message come up saying the security I installed was affecting the Norton & the unistall/change option came up & I uninstalled norton, but there was another Norton item listed.

On Windows 8 how do I get the uninstall/change option box up?

Thank You xxx

penrhyn

From the desktop, mouse to bottom left, right click and select control panel. Then find uninstall programme.

Or from the Start Screen, start typing control panel, and its icon will appear as if by magic on this dogs breakfast of an operating system.

Luckyone

Brilliant

Thank You so very much it's gone now

xxx

penrhyn

To remove the last traces of Norton, you may like to run the Norton removal programme as belt and braces.

https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/kb20080710133834EN_EndUserProfile_en_us

Luckyone

Thank You xxx

closed

brand new machine, and you're filling it up with bloat already. more bloat = more problems down the line.

Luckyone

What bloat?

xxx

closed

overlapping security software bloat.

Luckyone

Have I?

Which ones do the same job?

xxx

penrhyn

Good point, windows 8 has built in security software.:-)

closed

All the security products overlap to some extent, avira/malwarebytes resident/superantispyware. OA isn't needed.

All personal preference, my preference for a new machine is

uninstall all the bloat that came with it, including antivirus, install avast free, malwarebytes free, windows firewall, ccleaner, search everything, create recovery dvd's, create macrium reflect free full disk image (not clone) to external hard disk, create macrium boot cd, copy important data to c: drive, and repeat macrium backup to a new img file on external disk every so often and burn an extra copy of important data to dvd every so often. Be careful to avoid installing toolbars, extra browsers, spyware and bloat with free software.

After that, any future software, or hard disk problem is recoverable in less than an hour.