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[Hitman]

So I just recently installed Norton Antivurs 2004 in my system. Afte rthe installation I had to go so I just left Norton on... When I came back it showed me all these messages like Email Scanning not complete or could not reach email client.. something to that extent. There were like 50 of these messages. Anyways I just closed all of them and then noticed thatg my internet was down. So maybe that was the reason for all these messages.

Anyways I restart my computetr, and I try opening up Internet Explorer. I click on the IE icon and it gives my the hourglass logo for awhile then nothing opens. I see IExplore.exe in my processes list but no actual internet explorer window. I try logging into MSN, msn open alright but when I press Sign In the MSN icon spins once then freezes. I try open up Norton, the screen comes up it goes into the program then freezes. So those 3 programs seem to be messed up. My Winamp works and my Mozilla Firefox works still.

Anyways anyone know what may be the cause of this problem?

 

[Shogmaster]

Do you know if you had another OEMs anti virus program preinstalled on the computer? That fuxxors up things real good.

 

[Hitman]

I had Norton Antivirus 2003.. but I made sure to uninstall that before installing Norton 2004

 

[Shogmaster]

I was talking about McAffee or something. Nevermind. I'm out of ideas.

 

[callous]

I don't know about IE and Outlook, but I do know several people who simply had to uninstall NAV 04 to get MSN Messenger functionality back.

 

[Diablos]

Don't use Norton... that software sucks. Get Trend Micro Internet Security!

 

[DaCocoBrova]

McAfee Virus Scan.

 

[MetatronM]

Am I the only one who read the thread title and immediately said "NO SHIT" out loud?

 

[EdLuva]

NAV is garbage. get trend micro or avg.

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

is trend micro free ?

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

Is this the one ?

 

[Orin GA]

Same thing happened to my mons laptop. Sever slow down and a lot of shit didnt work, so i uninstalled it.

 

[impirius]

Am I the only one who read the thread title and immediately said "NO SHIT" out loud?

"I spilled water on my floor. Now it's wet."
"I shot a nun in the head. Now she's dead."

It's simple cause and effect... the once-proud Norton suite has turned into garbage that will wreck your system. Uninstall that junk and get AVG.

 

[EdLuva]

is trend micro free ?

The online version is.

 

[Shogmaster]

Norton is garbage all of the sudden because of the two security holes found and patched? Purleeeze....... I never had problems with Norton while I had some with McAffee. Does that mean McAffee is garbage because of my single experience?

Norton, McAffee, whatever it is, long as it's reputable AV program, it's fine, as long as you ido a fresh install right after you've installed Windows from scratch. Never had any problems as long as I've done it this way.

Installing AV on a old or preinstalled Windows install always gave me problems one way or another however.

 

[GuntherBait]

Norton is garbage all of the sudden because of the two security holes found and patched? Purleeeze....... I never had problems with Norton while I had some with McAffee. Does that mean McAffee is garbage because of my single experience?

Norton, McAffee, whatever it is, long as it's reputable AV program, it's fine, as long as you ido a fresh install right after you've installed Windows from scratch. Never had any problems as long as I've done it this way.

Installing AV on a old or preinstalled Windows install always gave me problems one way or another however.

good call.

 

[Hooker]

I've been using Trend Micro PC-Cillin ever since I got it with my motherboard (ASUS) and never had any problems. While I did have problems with McAfee and Norton.

 

[dilbert627]

"I spilled water on my floor. Now it's wet."
"I shot a nun in the head. Now she's dead."

It's simple cause and effect... the once-proud Norton suite has turned into garbage that will wreck your system. Uninstall that junk and get AVG.

+1000

 

[Error Macro]

Well, if you'd read the reviews of Norton 2004 at Amazon or elsewhere, you would have seen that it's a steaming pile of shit. I'm sticking with Norton Internet Security 2003.

 

[Shogmaster]

Well, if you'd read the reviews of Norton 2004 at Amazon or elsewhere, you would have seen that it's a steaming pile of shit. I'm sticking with Norton Internet Security 2003.

Really? I'm still using my NAV 2003. Maybe that's why I have no problems.