When you said "If I turn off NORTONS all together, it works", which Norton products are you referring to? It would help if you disable the programs one at a time, so we can track down which program is related to the issue.
If I turn of Nortons 360 all together. I wouldn't know how to turn of certain aspects of the program.
JAVA and EA are saying I should use another anitvirus program but I have used Nortons for years and would prefer to stay with it.
I know games are not that important, but when you are disabled, it helps to have something to do..
This all began with my updating of my subscription to nortons about January 19th, 2013. I believe I also updated Java to 7 a that time. With the error message I uninstalled 7 and reinstalled 6 and it still ocurs.
norton online family is not compatible with java 7. This issue was reported last July (see my previous posts) and norton refuses to acknowledge it or fix it.
My solution was to remove NOF altogether and install alternate web filtering.
I don't understand Norton's silence on this issue.
In the meantime, you can uninstall Java 7, and go to the Java 6 downloads page, and download the Java SE 6 Update 39 JRE (the last supported version of Java 6) and use that.
It is probably best to select the Windows x86 Offline version, because lately I've noticed that the online version is downloading version 7 whether you want it or not.
Isn't there a huge security vulnerability in java 6? Id rather risk my kid seeing porn by accident then risk hackers gaining access to my computer because norton wont fix this incompatibility