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hello, i had norton systemworks 2005 installed and working fine, i had an issue and reformatted my computer. installed everything again, including norton. i entered the same product key and it worked for 15 or os day, when it asked to activate again, and now when it asks to activate i say "activate now". then it says that activation requires internet connection, when i click next, it freezes and can stay like that for days. the only strange thing i notice is that i randomly during the "activation" get messages saying that norton antivirus was unable to perform its actions because it needs to be activated, but im not telling anyone to do any antivirus scans,,,, please help
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If you do decide to uninstall Norton, be sure to go to their site and get instructions on TOTAL removal. If you don't do that, you will NEVER get anothe AV to work, beacuse you won't be able to get online.
I've used Avast free for many yrs now and it works great....no muss, no fuss, no $'s...just great online updates and realtime virus protection.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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Contact Symantec for assistance. Their Help/Support is pretty good.
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.
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"I've used Avast free for many yrs now and it works great....no muss, no fuss, no $'s...just great online updates and realtime virus protection"
I'll second that.
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The trouble with ditching Norton is that you will lose the whole of SystemWorks & some bits of it can be quite useful. It is possible to just remove the antivirus component & leave the rest so you could start by using the Symantec on-line support system here - the free on-line chat works quite well & has certainly resolved odd problems I've had in the past. Then, when it's running properly, you can decide whether you want to keep all or part of it. Just for the record, I'm a keen user & advocate of Kaspersky but I hate not using something I've paid for so see if you can get Norton reactivated first.
"I know that I'm mad, I've always been mad"
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There is no problem with ditching NOrton. Sure, maybe he'll lose a few dollars but so what? That's experience.
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RegSeeker, click on > Find in registry, tick all the boxes in > Keys, put a word ( example Norton ) in > Search for : & click > Search. Now you have a list on one page, of all the registry entries for Norton.
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
RegSeeker is a perfect companion for your Windows registry!
RegSeeker includes a powerful registry cleaner and can display various informations like your startup entries, several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and much more! With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside your registry, export/delete the results, open them in the registry. RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel to optimize your OS! RegSeeker is FREE for personal use only!
My personal use, is to, delete only the Green entries.
Click on Select All and choose > Select all Green items.
Right click to delete.
Or,
How to uninstall Norton AntiVirus by using the Rnav2003.exe removal utility
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2001092114452606
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