Using Norton Antivirus 2010 (17.8.0.5) on Windows XP
I'm on dial-up. DSL, Cable and satellite (hills in the way) are not available.
A few months ago I experienced extremely slow internet. Most websites were inaccessible.
Also noticed my net connection showed intense activity, even with no programs running.
NAV and spyware scans were clean. My ISP suggested I install a protocol analyzer to show where the mystery data was coming from.
It showed the activity was all from
/downloads/CLT/NAV/US/2011/18.1/ESD/NAV-UPGRADE-ESD-NoDefs-18-1-0-37-EN.exe
Somehow, my Norton 2010 decided to upgrade to 2011 without any prompting.
I'm happy with NAV 2010's current features. I did not ask to upgrade to Norton 2011. This unwanted upgrade has been killing my internet connection. How can I stop the 2011 upgrade?
Or...
If I manually download NAV-UPGRADE-ESD-NoDefs-18-1-0-37-EN.exe and ran it from my hard drive, would it upgrade to NAV 2011 and restore my internet? (It's a 32MB file, so it would take about 3-4 hours. I can do that overnight.)
Thanks for your help,
Mr. Broken Dial-Up user