Anyone know any information on a virus that shuts down norton when ever you run the program proper. It also shuts down live update. It was only found when i went online and dosen't seem to be effecting anything other than norton and also shuting down the computer properly.

This is a worm virus, go to www.symantic.com, they have a fix. Could you help me with a problem with notepad? Can anyone help? I am having problems with notepad. When I type anything in and try to delete using backspace I find that the words are jumbled together. I have recently downloaded and installed Hot Potatoe, I do not know if this is the cause of the problem. I have to come out of notepad after saving and the page displays the amendments. If I try to page down all the words jumble together on screen. I have reinstalled Windows 98SE and looked at the keyboard settings, they are set to British. I have also virus checked and none were located. Help

Some if not most of Notepad's problems can be found in the system registry, or at least it was in my case. I was having problems with Notepad too, when I'd go to save a text file it would say out of memory, lol I have 384 MB Ram. I replaced Notepad with a freeware editor named Metapad which blows Notepad away, I just renamed Metapad.exe to Notepad.exe and wallah no more headaches and it can open huge files too. Metapad: http://liquidninja.com/metapad/

The Out of Memory error occurs if you try to open a large file. That's why replacing the program worked. BTW: Jan: You should always start a new post with your particular problem. In this case you have hijacked, Simon's thread. Simon: The site is www.symantec.com to go searching on. When you installed Norton, you "should" have created a rescue disk. Boot up using this, and then run Norton. If the disk set is relatively current, it should detect the virus, if you are infected.