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jraju:
Hi,Gsia
When you uninstall Norton, be sure to have Avast free antivirus free, which has 8 sheilds directy, and it also blocks suspicious sites. It has boot time scan and all that you need. It is free and recommended by Shane to me, when i was having mcafee and norton.
For 2 years there is no virus attack .
Boggin:
I use Norton 360 usually without any problems, but I don't use any other AV program with it.
While it appears you can run Avast with other AV programs because Avast doesn't have its own firewall, running two AV programs together can cause problems.
When you open Norton (although don't know which version you are using), click on Support and it will run a check on its installation and look for any other problems.
Process Explorer doesn't flag Norton for me and I think I would prefer Norton to Avast.
Symantec have a Remove & Reinstall tool which you can also use if Norton has become buggy.
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/uk/home/current/solutions/v60392881_EndUserProfile_en_us
Once it has fully reinstalled and activated the product, you need to manually check for updates (at least I do) until you get the non needed.
If you are intent on removing Norton then use the NRT to ensure all of it is gone.
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/uk/home/current/solutions/kb20080710133834EN_EndUserProfile_en_us
jraju:
Hi, But norton is slow i think in removing the attacks. Symantec has not improved that much as others. Shane has given a link, where the AV are compared and then he suggested the AVAST. Avast , in my personal view, is the best program. I will try to post the link, that Shane has recommended
Boggin:
I've been using Norton 360 for nearly 5 year and it has kept me safe.
Norton used to slow things down but it has been improved over the years.
I once uninstalled Norton and installed MSE - which is supposed to be lightest of all on resources and I didn't notice any difference in performance.
For Process Explorer to have snagged Norton for Rod, then it must have become buggy which it can do if there's been a buggy Definitions update or one of the infections has disrupted its install, but a Remove & Reinstall would fix that.
It would have been interesting to know what ESET and Combofix had found and removed as Norton is normally pretty good at keeping things out, although no AV program is 100% effective and we don't know Rod's browsing habits.
gsiamrod:
Folks, thanks for all the help each of you have posted on my problems on this machine. The keyboard was going haywire! Also had bad virus that I finally got rid of with mbam and combofix. Also, got rid of many unused programs and scraping Norton. Too many virus programs open interferring with each other. Ran all in one and machine humms now. Faster than when it was out of the box.Boot up is fast and also shutdown. Sorry for not getting back here earlier, but personal problems came first. Thanks!!
PROBLEM SOLVED!!
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