Norton caused failed load and no internet?

This is bit tricky and I'm not saying that Norton caused it.

 

This has occurred on a few occasions; once, earlier in the year, another time within this month and just now.

When I started up my computer it would stick on the load screen with the hard drive activity light constantly blinking.

Each time I was able to boot into Safe Mode

I ended up Ghosting back to a previous image, which was fine, as I decide to update them and what not, after I transferred whatever files I needed to my second partition.

 

This time I decided to tackle the problem.

I tried using the Windows Repair Disc to fix any startup errors but I stopped it after 10mins as it wasn't getting anywhere.

I started up in normal mode again to see if anything was done not expecting anything. I entered my password and was distracted on my phone. I'm guessing a few mins must have passed and I saw invalid password. I noticed the hard drive light had stopped blinking constantly and I figured that it just might load now. I entered my password correctly and it did.

 

Now, after Windows loaded up everything. I saw Norton notifying me that each of its components had been disabled but the Norton icon was green :-S I tried opening it but nothing happened. I checked the Task Manager and I saw that all 4-related processes were running (2 for NIS and 2 for NM).

I decided to see what I could find out online. I opened IE9 - no internet, although Windows says that I am connected. I tried the other browsers - same thing. I tried pinging my router but I was unable to (can't remember the reason but I think it was General hardware failure).

My net and router was working since I was able to use it from my phone.

After this I decided to uninstall NIS completely, restarted and it booted as normal.

 

I haven't re-installed it yet but I do think it would startup normally.

I'm just putting this out there and will update this after I re-install.

 

NIS2012 (latest version) | Windows 7x64 | No other security software

 

Mitka