Mister Norton is (was?) a great guy, and Symantec, unfortunately, seems to have gone ahead and abused his good name by creating products that don’t remove themselves nicely according to the End User’s wishes… and I even notice that they don’t give the user the option of “exiting” or “quitting” the program once running… I’m quite proud to note that 4 of my 6 links happen to refer to each other, so they all know they agree. I am just doing the same (almost) thing… uninstalling a full Norton product, and before doing so, looked up NO LESS THAN 6 websites with similar information, tips, hints, and links, as well as instructions for doing the removal. He’s got two significant pages with instructions which are handy.Īlso, if you GOOGLE “uninstall Norton” you may notice other websites, like

Search within Dave Taylor’s website for Norton Removal.

Norton Personal Firewall 2003 through 2007.

Norton Internet Security 2003 through 2007.

It is a small, easy to use executable that removes Norton products completely and isnt limited to just Norton Antivirus either, it can remove their other popular programs such as: This is where the Norton Removal tool comes in handy. Of course it cant start properly because they just uninstalled most of its components expecting everything to be removed which leaves you with a crippled copy of Norton which wont uninstall. Someone tries to remove the Norton product (which is usually the antivirus program) and it appears to uninstall, but next time they reboot the computer Norton presents an error message saying Norton couldn’t start because its missing a critical component.

I have seen it many times on computer repair callouts. Unfortunately Norton products tend to install themselves deep down into the critical parts of your system and if the product becomes damaged in some way you have a big problem. Symantec has been dominating the computer security market for years now their most popular offering being Norton Antivirus which is often pre-installed on new brand-name computers.

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