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Hello Mac users.

I am curious as to if Mac OS X has any equivalent of the Windows "uninstall." The reason I ask is quite a while ago my college had Norton AntiVirus up for download. I downloaded it, it keeps wanting to LiveUpdate and I have checked prefs and all sorts of things to prevent it. Now that I have upgraded to Tiger, the program has fucked up.... big time. Everytime the system boots it goes through 3 minutes of trying to load Norton. Yes, I have tried simply throwing the app in the trash, now it's just worse.

Am I fucked?

Thanks

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I think where it went wrong was ---> Norton AntiVirus for a Mac.

Sorry I have no clue how to help with this problem

Oh yeah I think I would do a search in finder for anything "Norton AntiVirus" and trash all of it
you may have missed something to trash.

restart

 

[sc0la]

is there a norton folder in your startup items? Start by trashing that.

Check the norton manual as well. Most apps can just be thrown away, but some do have uninstal utilities.

edit: the folder is "StartupItems" and it should by in your library folder

 

[dkeane]

I've found some of the apps on my Mac have uninstall options on the cd/dvd. Try putting in your application disk to see if there's an option.

 

[ballhog]

If you still have the installer you downloaded, you could try running that to see if there is an uninstall option, some mac installers are like this. Otherwise, you just have to hunt down everything norton installed and get rid of it. The "startupitems" folder is a good place to start. system>library>startupitems

 

[Deku Tree]

Go To System Preferences (in the apple menu).
Then go to "Accounts" (in the system preferences).
Then go to "Login Items" (in your Account).

Most likely there is a "norton" login item here which you should delete. If you delete it, norton's will no longer try to load at startup.

 

[Phoenix]

is there a norton folder in your startup items? Start by trashing that.

Check the norton manual as well. Most apps can just be thrown away, but some do have uninstal utilities.

edit: the folder is "StartupItems" and it should by in your library folder

This is your likely easy answer. Nothing can start up without installing a kernel extension or being in the /Library/StartupItems folder. A quick browse of this folder is likely to turn up something. Delete this and life will return to normal.