Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[spencejr]

How does a person uninstall Norton Antivirus. It is a virus unto itself. They're updates are so frequent and they take sooo lonng to download, it totally takes away from the internet experience. All these downloads are slowing my computer to a crawl. Certainly can't blame viruses because everytime it says it has a new update I let it happen and now it just doesn't seem to be working at all. Somebody please tell me how to get rid of this Norton Antivirus virus. This stupid laptop came with it all ready installed and it is driving me nuts!!!

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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spencejr wrote:

How does a person uninstall Norton Antivirus. It is a virus unto itself. They're updates are so frequent and they take sooo lonng to download, it totally takes away from the internet experience. All these downloads are slowing my computer to a crawl. Certainly can't blame viruses because everytime it says it has a new update I let it happen and now it just doesn't seem to be working at all. Somebody please tell me how to get rid of this Norton Antivirus virus. This stupid laptop came with it all ready installed and it is driving me nuts!!!

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Welcome spencejr,

Please tell us a bit more about your laptop and how you connect to the Internet. There are settings you can try to improve things and yes, there is a way to totally remove NAV from your system. Before we do that I'd like to try and identify the problem and see if things don't improve when it's solved. You didn't mention the brand of laptop, if it's a Dell there is another security program that may also be preinstalled. It will have to be removed before NAV has a better than even chance of doing its job and not bugging you to death.

Thanks, we'll leave a light on

[Stu]

What seems to be the exact problem?

Why do you want to uninstall? What version? what OS? etc...

[lmacri Super Phishing Phryer]

Hi spencerjr:

If the other users in this forum can't solve your problem and you're determined to uninstall NAV, just uninstall as you normally would from the Control panel (e.g., Start | Control Panel | Programs and Features).  You should be able to remove any remnants of the installation by re-booting your PC and running the Norton Removal Tool (available here).  The Norton Removal Tool will uninstall all Norton software from your system, so keep this in mind if you have Norton Utilies or other Symantec products on your PC.

I sympathize with your concern.  I have a slow dial-up connection at home and I can't allow my NIS 2011 to run LiveUpdate automatically because the large definition updates hog all my bandwidth and bring my PC to a complete standstill.  I disabled Automatic LiveUpdates in NIS (Settings | Computer Settings | Updates | Automatic LiveUpdate | Off) and I now run my LiveUpdate manually when I'm using a faster public WiFi connection or when I know my PC will be idle for 20 minutes or so.

There are several other background tasks you can disable in NIS or NAV (see post here for examples) but I wouldn't recommend any of these setting tweaks unless they're absolutely necessary because a few will compromise the security of your PC.  But that's sometimes the only option if you want to use NIS or NAV over a slow Internet connection.

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Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * NIS 2011 v. 18.6.0.29 * IE 9.0 * Firefox 5.0
HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS