Can't uninstall Norton AntiSpam Outlook Plugin

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I need to completely uninstall the Norton AntiSpam Plugin from Outlook 2003, as part of diagnostics.  NIS 2011, Windows XP SP3.

 

Unfortunately, neither of the approaches I found in the forums (links below) works for me.  As soon as I reboot and start up Outlook, the plugin reappears in the Outlook COM Add-Ins section, checked and denoted as "Load at Startup."  I thought perhaps disabling NIS Tamper Protection might help, but it didn't.

 

How can I accomplish this, short of uninstalling NIS (I'm beginning to wonder if even THAT would do the trick :smileywink:)?  Thanks.

 

The "solutions" that failed to work for me:

 

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/norton-antispam-outlook-plugin/td-p/192887

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Outlook-Anti-Spam-Plug-In-Difficulties/m-p/481730#M162707

 

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No responses, so I kept experimenting and I think I've figured out how to accomplish this.

 

 

1.  Temporarily turn off NIS Tamper Protection (not sure whether that step is really necessary).

 

2.  In registry navigate to My Computer\HHKEY_CURRENTUSER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\MsouPlug.OutlookPlug.  For Load Behavior, change the value in parentheses to 0.

 

3.  Reboot.

 

Now the Norton AntiSpam no longer appears at all in the Outlook COM Add-Ins section. 

 

I don't know whether or not this work for those who use Norton Anti-Spam (i,e, have it enabled in NIS options).  Also, importantly, I HAD NO OUTLOOK ADD-INS BESIDES NORTON ANTI-SPAM.  FOR ALL I KNOW THIS COULD KEEP ANY OTHER ADD-INS FROM LOADING AS WELL, WHICH MIGHT BE AN UNDESIRED OUTCOME FOR SOME,