changin from norton to another AV program

[Genenut 8]

I'm looking at changing from norton to another AV program. Is there anything I need to be aware of when uninstalling norton? Will it completely uninstall? I havent changed AV in years so this is all new. Last time was under win95 ...

 

I'm looking at AVG or someone other than norton or macafee...

 

suggestions?

[fRACTAL 0]

I use AVG Professional, had no trouble with it except 1 false positive...

No virus problems either.

(I use it in conjunction with Spyware Doctor)

~Doom

[Funkilicious 1]

Hi Gene, uninstalling Nortons should be a breeze though I have heard a couple of stories where it wouldn't uninstall completely and a reformat had to be performed.

 

As a precautionary, back up your important files, just in case.

 

I use AVG free in conjunction with spybot, hope all goes well.

 

Funki

[Yarasa 0]

Is there anything I need to be aware of when uninstalling norton?

 

Use this tool for removing Norton products

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgen...005033108162039

 

For the antivirus advice, I am happy with Nod32. No problems so far. It is not using a lot of system resources. Also it has quite often updates (which is good).

[promatolya 5]

I use Avast, with ad-aware and spybot.

and I daily use CrapCleaner to get rid of all cookies, and files that might let other stuff in you dont want

 

prOm

[Ike 1]

I have not used and Anti-virus software in 7-8 years and I couldn't be happier. I got really tired of the huge drain on resources and I do not tend to open stuff with viruses in it anyway (most e-mail is scanned by the e-mail server -- ISP or company). I have not had a virus in that time. I had problems uninstalling Norton when I did it many years ago because it didnot clean out the registry entries properly, but one would hope they would have fixed that by now.

 

I use Spybot Search and Destroy and Spyware Doctor on a reasonably frequent basis and get my O/S updates frequently and don't really have issues.

[Blade 1]

Same here, I use the same strategy as Ike does and it seems to work well. I got a virus once that stumped me, but I installed a generic anti virus program and it eliminated it, must have been a weak one. And don't get the MSN virus, I know some people with it and it is the worst.

[erialc 2]

Good luck Moms removing Norton I had a nightmare when I tried to uninstall the resource hungry thing that it is. Eventually got rid of it and I now use Avast, Spybot search and Destroy and Ad Aware pretty frequently

 

Let us know how it goes Moms

[myles 2]

GL, hope nothing nasty happens.

 

Funny how these supposedly protecting you softwares did the opposite all the times.