Re: Who Told Me Norton Internet Security was crap?

Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:01:48 +0100, Simon Dean
<sjdean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was just uninstalling it...

It felt like it was uninstalling fifty billion core windows things, no wonder my f***ing PC is slow!

S'right. And did it take nearly 45 minutes and two reboots to
uninstall? That's what the last one I did took.

Symantac publish a tool to uninstall when the normal uninstaller
won't, too. They know exactly how crappy their kit is.

http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039?OpenDocument

Cheers - Jaimie

My only really major issue now, is that I didn't follow the other bit of advice and hold off from upgrading to Vista. I've never seen a bigger pile of crap in all my life.

With its anti-aliased fonts and ugly window managers, its more like Linux than Linux!

After a successful upgrade, I couldn't get into Control Panel, or Windows Explorer (some freaky permissions issue). Even though the domain user I was logged in as was set as an administrator of the computer, it wasn't playing ball. But I could Win-E to explorer.

A few software updates, and now I don't have a local administrative account I can log into, the same password I have used for everything does not work....

So I can't make any changes or install any drivers, even simple things like going to Device Manager, requires me to enter an administrative login.

So, OK, I enter my domain administrator, no ball.

Though at this point, I should say Im using Samba. Just upgraded from 3.0.23 to 3.0.24, followed instructions, gone with client ntlmv2 auth = yes etc and switched off ntlm v1 and lanman auth types, still no dice.

So, advice from all the forums... "go into secpol" nope, need administrator password.

Well, change the registry... Nope, apparently I don't have permissions! Despite being logged in as a domain user that is in the local administrators group!

WTF!

So I can't even change what domain it's on, without connecting to a current domain and specifiying the domain administrator password... I just want to record neighbours. Is that a crime?

And the disk activity is just ridiculous. Im considering upgrading to 4 Gig, because I really don't think 2 Gig will be enough!

Cya
Simon
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