Re: anybody have bad problems removing Norton antivirus ?


"Ron Lopshire" <notron@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> BobT wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:54:36 GMT, administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > (John Coutts) wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>************* REPLY SEPARATER **************
> >>Shut down all the Symantec services before running the uninstall program.
> >>Active services cannot be removed.
> >>
> >>J.A. Coutts
> >
> >
> > Aren't the assorted Symantec uninstall programs smart enough to do
> > that first?
> >
>
> Bob,
>
> Symantec uninstall programs? LOL. It's been 6 months since I have had
> NAV on my system, and I am still fighting those ... well, you know ...
> people. It took me 4 months to figure out how to get rid of all of the
> 16-bit choice.com files that were scattered throughout my HD in various
> Symantec sub-directories. I finally re-read Eric Howes' notes on Enough
> is Enough!:
>
> (https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource6.htm)
>
> Everytime I install or re-install a significant program/application, I
> re-run HijackThis and save the log file as a point of reference. This
> item keeps showing up:
>
> O23 - Service: Symantec Network Drivers Service (SNDSrvc) - Unknown
> owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe (file
> missing)
>
> I tell HijackThis to get rid of it, and it always, like a bad penny,
> comes back. The pointer must be hidden somewhere, because I have
> manually cleaned the Registry of all Symantec/Norton entries. The terms
> uninstall and Symantec/Norton don't belong in the same sentence. I
> wonder if re-formatting the HD would work. LOL.
>
> Ron :-)

Ron, Symantec has a pretty thorough 'manual' removal procedure on their website.
Perhaps you could even use the Norton removal tool from Kaspersky that Kenneth
mentioned a few post before this.


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