- Norton B Gone!
Listen to last week TWIT Podcast, Leo Laporte complained about Norton, which is on his list of “Not recommended software” and ironically ranked #1 on most popular software at Amazon. Unfortunately, to uninstall Norton is not a simple task. IMHO, it is purposely designed that way. Norton offers a free removal utility but it is sometime hard to find and they keep changing it…with expiration date, etc…
Thank you to TheShadow to share his tip:
Norton continues to be the worse program (or virus) I ever have to remove from customers PC’s. Again, last week a customer was begging me to help him with a Norton 2006 install that was driving him nuts. It was reporting a virus and then refusing to remove it. And, his computer was running so slow he couldn’t stand it any more. Total frustration!!!!!
WELL, the old Norton Killer I had said it was out of date and refused to work. It had just worked the previous day. Crying or Very sad
Norton also would not uninstall itself. So I did what I have had to do so often and I physically ripped it out by the roots. (manually deleting the files and folders and running the old Norton registry cleanup routine to remove the registry entries)
Then I installed both AVG 7.1 FREE and Trojan Hunter and AdAware SE/Personal and Spybot S&D and got his computer completely clean of all malware.
I had to remove over 200 pieces of spyware. Some were pre-installed by the computer’s manufacturer. (Dell)
After I got home, I did some Googling and found that indeed there is a new Norton Removal Tool available from Symantec. It comes in three parts now, not just two.
So, I packaged them up (zipped) and uploaded them to my Rented Site where others can easily download them.
From:
http://tools.house-tech.net
In the “Computer Tools” section,
Download:
NortonKiller.exe
Put it in a Desktop folder and run it to unpack it.
There will be three files, each one numbered consecutively.
Run file #1, then file #2 and then (guess what) file #3.
When you’re done running the three files, Norton will be GONE!
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