Norton/Symantec hasn't always been nice (are they now?) - remember when Norton Utilities couldn't be removed on DOS installations? The only option was to totally format the drive and start over. I know people who won't even try Norton/Symantec products after all of those years because of these types of problems.
This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments.
Why even use Anti-Spyware when Norton Anti-Virus (corporate edition at least) can detect and remove spyware in real time?
Frankly i dont remember having any troubles uninstalling Norton Utilities on dos. If you had used the drive compress feature you had to revert the disk back to its old uncompressed state before you uninstalled that feature but other than that it wasnt any problems uninstalling it.
Whaddya mean you couldn't uninstall Norton for DOS? deltree c:\norton. Done.
As far as not needing an anti-spyware program, Norton's sucks for one reason. Another reason is MSFT's product stops a lot of things on the fly. Most anti-spyware programs only work marginally but the extra realtime layer with the MSFT product helps.
Not when Norton takes over the DOS installation and it can be run, AT ALL, without the the tree. Then files are spread out and hidden. Binary modifications are hard to undo as well. It should have come with a label.
However, I disagree with the people who say that the anti-virus scanner is slow or takes up all of the CPU or RAM. I run it on my PVR and it never bothers the playback or recording and the machine is ancient (an old celeron with no RAM, but the antivirus is the latest corporate, one of the most ex
My Dad tried to uninstall Norton, it came with his laptop and the subscrition had run out so he didn't want it anymore. Once he removed it and restarted his computer totally crashed, Norton must've taken a vital system file or registry key with it too, he had to restore his computer with those stupid rescue discs and ended up back with Norton, but he lost several days and alot of work that he hadn't backed up, it caused alot of heartached too.
Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.
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Norton/Symantec hasn't always been nice (are they now?) - remember when Norton Utilities couldn't be removed on DOS installations? The only option was to totally format the drive and start over. I know people who won't even try Norton/Symantec products after all of those years because of these types of problems.
This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments.
Why even use Anti-Spyware when Norton Anti-Virus (corporate edition at least) can detect and remove spyware in real time?
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As far as not needing an anti-spyware program, Norton's sucks for one reason. Another reason is MSFT's product stops a lot of things on the fly. Most anti-spyware programs only work marginally but the extra realtime layer with the MSFT product helps.
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It should have come with a label.
However, I disagree with the people who say that the anti-virus scanner is slow or takes up all of the CPU or RAM. I run it on my PVR and it never bothers the playback or recording and the machine is ancient (an old celeron with no RAM, but the antivirus is the latest corporate, one of the most ex
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