Re: Norton install ate my system :-(

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:55:06 -0500, Guenther Fischer wrote
(in article <020320092355064520%never@xxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <1iw02wa.1e9ylv4osrp16N%jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jamie
Kahn Genet <jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brian Gordon <briang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Mac G4 Pismo, Mac OS 10.4.11

I installed the newest Norton Antrivirus as an update. Near the end, it
asked
if I wanted to check for updates, and I did, so it ground on for another
20 minuites or so, then completed and asked me to reboot. I did.

Since then a normal reboot leads to a gray screen with a big black square
in
the middle. Safe boot works, but that has led to other problems. I
presumed
that the install had only affected to Applications area, so I replaced that
--
to no avail.

Any suggestions on what to look for, and where? 60 minute "support" calls
to
India or wherever haven't gotten a reasonable suggestion :-(

Another Norton user has their Mac buggered up... big surprise. Why
anyone would still go anywhere near Norton on the Mac is beyond me...

You talk about the old days. Norten people did a good job with NAV 10
and 11.

No they didn't. NAV 10 and 11 aren't flat-out, blood-curdling, Cthulhuian
horror shows the way NAV 9 was, but that isn't exactly praise.


Plus - unless your company requires an anti-virus or you pass along lots
of potentially infected Windows files you really do not need AV on a
Mac. You're just wasting your time.

Well, if you do not want to share infected PC files in you network, you
should install a virus protection.

The Windows machines should be protected. Why waste the time on machines
which cannot be affected?

--
email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.

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