[Bengie]

Norton security, famed more for being bloatware and slowing down your pc, rather than keeping you safe on-line also makes if very difficult, if not impossible, to get rid of it from your system.

You can't just uninstall it like you can every other product or application, you have to visit their website and then go through a whole list if stupid and quite frankly unnecessary steps.

1. Know the product key - (hello, the kids tore that up a year ago or I bought the pc used with no documentation).
2. Log on to your Norton Account
3. Enter your Email address.
4. Click on the Norton product you want to get rid of.
5. Write down the product key - (I bought the pc used with no documentation remember so can't sign in)
6. Download an application that will remove Nortons rubbish.
7. Run the application and hope that it's gone.

There is aggressive selling and then there is Norton with it's unauthorised takeover of your pc. And you have to pay for this rubbish which also contains it's own Spyware.

[peterg]

I totally agree. I personally do not think that anyone should be allowed to load anything onto a new pc, without the purchaser first requesting it.

I have only ever bought one new pc and from that moment on I have always built my own. I know that many people cannot do this (mind you, to be honest you can actually buy a pc now with the spec you want, and it will be within a few pounds of the 'build it yourself' system), but to my mind, build it yourslf has always been the route to go.

[Bengie]

Couldn't agree more.

I have a friends Acer Aspire 5315 and had so much trouble getting rid of Norton that I have reinstalled Vista. Now I am having problems with the Lan driver as I can't get on the net.
I plugged it in to my network and it usually installs all that's needed, but after downloading the Lan driver from Acer, I can't find any .exe setup file - anyone help with that?

I checked on the prices of build it yourself and built to order and you are right about the prices. I still like to build my own so I can pick the manufacturers I want.

My present Asus is a bad design so wouldn't want another of these. The Asus sound card covers 2 of the memory slots making them unusable and if I move it to the only other PCIe slot, it is so close to the graphics card that the latter overheats as no air can get around it and it's fan is blocked.

I think I will go back to Gigabyte with the next build.

[Kremmen]

You don't actually

You download and run the Norton Removal Tool from Symantec and it removes everything Norton from your machine. Very quick and easy.

Proper Job !

With regard to slowing PC's down, Norton over the last 3 versions has now become one of the lightest users of resources - but mud sticks.

[Alan]

There is a free tool that will uninstall any Norton product available here: http://www.blogsdna.com/2440/uninsta...moval-tool.htm

When I used to buy PC's the first thing I did was to format them just to get shut of all the unwanted shareware rubbish.

[Bengie]

Originally Posted by Kremmen

You don't actually

You download and run the Norton Removal Tool from Symantec and it removes everything Norton from your machine. Very quick and easy.

Proper Job !

With regard to slowing PC's down, Norton over the last 3 versions has now become one of the lightest users of resources - but mud sticks.

That's what I tried, but I had to enter all the details as in my original post first.

It probably has got better than it used to be, but as you say, 'mud sticks'.

[peterg]

@Bengie, have you seen this site? = ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/noteboo...re_5315/vista/

or this? = http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/153369 (which is a huge download for a driver!).

[Bengie]

I will in a minute Pete.

I did manage to sort it out. The drivers won't install on less than SP2 so I had to download SP 1 & 2 onto a USB stick and install that way and then did the same with the driver.

[peterg]

@Kremmen, I am still not sure about Norton, as every pc I see that has Norton installed takes an absolute age to get to a 'working desktop' due the time it takes for Norton to load everything.

[peterg]

Interesting Bengie - as Acer do say that with Vista you need at least SP1, but don't say about SP2. I guess they need to update the websites lol.