Not sure what is causing your problem but i believe i had a similar problem a few years ago, i know use and recommend you use the brilliant and free Avast Anti virus which is free for home use.
Not sure what is causing your problem but i believe i had a similar problem a few years ago, i know use and recommend you use the brilliant and free Avast Anti virus which is free for home use.
mpossoff first make sure you have a copy of avast on your PC then go to your start menu and find the control panel and open add/remove programs and find the Norton and uninstall it. Then install avast anitvirus and reboot if prompted.
Wow guys we have to do a little better than this. The person asked how to uninstall norton and you all were already suggesting new AVs. Then you recommended a dozen tools to remove it.
First step is to ask questions.
mpossoff what version of norton is it? I know corporate but we need a more info.
For now what I would do is get rid of avast untill you get norton gone. Then redownload norton and install it. Then see if you can remove it with the uninstaller.
I believe he already tried that, if I'm reading his post correctly. One thing I will suggest is to go into Safe Mode and reinstall Norton, and then try uninstalling.
If that doesn't work, and the SymNRT app doesn't work, the only option left is to remove all of Symantec's startup processes, restart the computer, and try to manually remove any files that pertain to Norton/Symantec, and their registry entries as well. But Symantec products absolutely flood your hard drive with miscellaneous files, and finding them all probably won't be easy. That is a last resort.
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Oops, sorry about that rridgely! I hit reply before you had posted.
- Multiple freeware programs with registry cleaners; CCleaner, EasyCleaner, RegSeeker, etc. It may also require the usage of some commercial trial-basis registry cleaners hence we are talking about Symantec/Norton products that install a horde of registry entries.
1. download RegSeeker ( http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm ) and scan you PC! After scan remove all what he find (ist 100% safe but if you see some errors you can restore reg data)
2. If, after cleaning with RegSeeker, problem is still there, free jv16 RegCleaner (when creator maded this cleaner (in 2001) it was free (so this is that version from 2001) but now it's not free):