Ari Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 I'd like to remove Norton Anti-virus from my PC. But I keep reading people saying it's really difficult, lots to do etc. I've no idea how to do this and would normally have just gone to Add/Remove Programs and removed Norton, but presumably there's much more to it? Any chance of an idiots guide? Am deleting it cos I'm lead to believe it's a huge memory hog and slows the PC down. It's struggling with video editing at the mo so figure getting rid of Norton (and moving a lot of movies onto a remote harddrive) should free up some space and processing power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 The answer is it can be a problem to remove, but not necessarily. Try Add/Remove first - that's the best place to start. in my experience while it removes the chunk of the setup norton does have a habit of leaving the odd file & setup info behind. Difficult to remove if you don't know what you're doing as it involves pissing about with the registry etc. Try Add/Remove - more than likely will work for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biturbo Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 I know from experience that somewhere on Symantec's website there is a removal tool where it gets rid of everything. Can't remember where though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omi Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Brilliant thanks Omi, I'll give that a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NunchukHamster Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Bloody thing didn't work for me. I was lucky though, all my keep stuff is on an external HD. Full format of the internal drive and off we went! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I remember the above seeming to work well for me. Laptop came with security centre and 90 day trial on it. Lasted 4 days before I got rid of it. Add/remove and the on-site tool worked okay. There may be a couple of files left lying around still though as a few 'Symantec'ish titled ones keep coming up as locked in a NOD32 scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_C Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Quote "Eliminating Norton" Dooh ... I thought this was a thread about TV presenter Graham ... thought there might have been a collection or something. Can't help IT wise ... just not that clever ... other than on my old computer I had Norton installed and it wasn't very good ... McAfee on my new computer is much better in my personal non-IT based opinion. Rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CabGirl Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Can you not just disable it when you do your movie stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 I've tried that and it helps, but not completely. I've heard so much bad stuff about Norton being a memory hog etc that I'd just rather get shot of it to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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