G'day my Norton Community Fellows,recently i posted an answer to a question that a lot of microsoft enquirers were looking for,the subject was...how to get rid of different services taking over your web homepage and setting themselves up as your "homepage" and no matter how many hours and different ideas suggested to me,..such as going into Internet Options and deleteing the unwanted homepage take over(my homepage preference is nine msn--because it relates directly to Australian users and for the same reason i dont use "Bing" for a default search engiine is because it is more American knowledge based)and after deleteing the offending homepage take over and typing in the correct msn HTTP etc,and then clicking homepage the msn page would appear,"but" the next time i opened up my web page "ASK" HAD TAKEN OVER AGAIN!!,so,the only thing i could think of to do was estimate or correctly remember the last time i did a site download(and didnt realise it was bringing ASK with it) i did a "system restore" and wow,what a relief the persistent nuicance had gone forever !!.
Any way this microsoft community guru,thanked me for my input and then continued to say...what i had done "would never get rid of the problem altogether unless i found a way to remove the program software entirely and put a "footnote" at the bottom,""free advice""No computer should have Mc Afee or Norton installed as a system security"-well i replied,the Homepage problem had never raised its ugly head again(since system restore)and by the way i have tried all the so called "top 5 security systems INCLUDING MSE,and every one of them had recurring viruses,bugs and worms and system failure within months at a time in some cases,BUT since i installed Norton nearly 2 years ago "i have never had any threat get anywhere near my computer"and i realised that as soon as Norton was installed "it made itself AT HOME and took over the whole system as if it was a true 24/7 GUARDIAN.I will let you know if any comments come back at me on the Microsoft Forum Guru or Guru's.