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I recently had to reinstall Windows XP. After the reinstall I checked to see if I could find Norton Antivirus on my computer. It didn't seem to be on there. So I tried reinstalling it from my CD. But it gets to the point where it says Norton Antivirus live update can't run with this program and then says there is a fatal error and installation is aborted.
Can anyone tell me what is going on? I need virus protection but don't know what to do about this...
Thanks!
mcbenner
The best advice one can give you is to dump Nortons altogether and download one of the free AV programs like Avast or AVG.
If you're having problems now with Nortons, you will ALWAYS have problems.
Lessons learnt the hard way are not easily forgotten.
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Did you try UNinstalling it first through Contol Panel, then reinstalling it? I do not use NAV, but check if you can uninstall it by using the CD-sometimes they have an uninstaller as well as an installer.
If you are experienced with hacking the register, you can also go into the register and manually remove the NAV references, although there are probably about 30 of them-it's a pain.
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Take the latter advice and find another anti- virus other than Norton . Its a huge resource hog it refuses to let you uninstall its devices without its permission or a complete delving into the registry to totally remove it. That in itself should be enough to convince you to steer clear. Try Avg its decent its free
www.grisoft.com
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I think you are all missing something. if you reinstalled XP, why would that put Norton on anywhere? Unless you are talking about a restore cd but we need some clarification here and I sincerly hope you didn't simply install XP over the top the way we used to do in 9X Windows, because if you did, you have a disaster on your hands!
As much as I loathe Norton antivirus, I would prefer to see that to the FREE SPREAD!
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I have been using the free version of AVG for several years and never had a virus. It caught one on a floppy that my brother in law brought over one day and that is the only one I have ever seen.
Before that, I used to buy Norton AntiVirus but after way too many problems with the Norton garbage, all of it is banned from my computer.
Norton used to be excellent and I used it for 15 or more years but in recent years, it is very invasive and caused no end of strange things to happen on my computers.
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All good points about Norton antivirus...there really are two sides to this issue, and one is how effective is it in catching and disposing of virus. The other side is how obnoxious is it in your system. Norton antivirus programs have always been resource hogs that really rob power unnecessarily. They also seldom can clean a file whereas most other programs can clean a file with a virus attached, and that sure can be an asset when you have a Windows System file with a virus.
In spite of all of this, this product is vastly superior to Avg and Avast. For me I buy my software and am not the least bbit interested in FREE SOFTWARE....
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Wow, thanks for all the responses.
RE: this message from Rich Mentzel
"I sincerly hope you didn't simply install XP over the top the way we used to do in 9X Windows, because if you did, you have a disaster on your hands!"
I'm not sure what this means - I reinstalled Windows XP over the old version (i.e., I said yes when it asked me if I wanted to overwrite the old version. But there's no doubt things aren't going well now!) Should I not have done that?
I tried to find NAV in the Add/Remove function to uninstall it last night but it didn't show up there (or under programs etc.) So I did a search on my computer and it found several related files using that, which I deleted. I then tried reinstalling NAV using the CD and it still came up with a fatal error.
At that point, I decided to see if the fact that I was running an older version of XP without the updates yet installed was causing problems. So I ran all the updates for XP.
After doing that, however, my computer for some reason would not let me on the Internet anymore. At that point, I got so sick of the whole process I just turned my computer off - I figured that was preferable to throwing it out the window (am keeping my fingers crossed the Internet problem was related to a network issue last night and will be resolved today). If not, and it's related to XP, I think I have larger problems possible related to the reinstall.
I've already paid for a year subscription to NAV (I think I have about six months left) so would like to continue using that as long as I'm subscribed. Seems like there's some disagreement over which antivirus program is best...
mcbenner.
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"I'm not sure what this means - I reinstalled Windows XP over the old version (i.e., I said yes when it asked me if I wanted to overwrite the old version. But there's no doubt things aren't going well now!) Should I not have done that?"
I guess I am still unclear as to what you did...if you did not rune the XP repair by booting from CD, and you did not update to Pro perhaps from Home using cd in Windows, then I think you really installed over top which usually puts 2 XP's in there and creates a nightmare, but I can't quite get the meaning of what you did.If I am right, you really need to "wipe and load" because that is why soe many things are not running right. You cannot install XP over the top in Windows as we used to in 9X (i.e. Windows 98) as what happens is 2 OS's, neither one working right.
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Hmmm...well, I know I didn't run a repair and just reinstalled Windows XP using the original CD and said I wanted to overwrite it. Which must mean I have two copies running on my computer, which is messing it up. Ok, so how would I "wipe and load?" Does that mean basically rewriting my hard drive? Is it possible to uninstall Windows?
Thanks,
mcbenner
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Boot to the cd from bootup...
http://www.theeldergeek.com/xp_home_install_-_graphic.htmRich M
www.kickenhardware.net
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