Hi,
I am having a recurrent problem with Norton Internet Security 2009.
It installs, updates and scans fine. But after a couple of days eventually it gets an update that requires a reboot. When the PC comes back up (running Windows XP, sp3), the router (Netgear) is unreachable and I cannot ping it either. All the network devices have yellow flagged duplicates that have the same name plus ‘Symantec miniport’.
Uninstalling NIS 2009 removes these and restores the connection to the router and thence the Internet.
Reinstalling NIS (after running the Norton Registry fix tool) works fine for a few days then the same problem reoccurs.
I have saved Registry exports of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for when the problem happened. I have looked for and cannot find any registry entries with ‘$%&’.