Can anyone one help with the above ? I go through the removal procedure and end up with a screen saying 'preparing to uninstall please wait ' 45 minutes later I'm still waiting. ! Is this normal. ?
Norton removal. Windows 10
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Go onto the Norton site and download their removal tool.
It takes a bit of searching but it is there I have used it a couple of times and it works.
It takes a bit of searching but it is there I have used it a couple of times and it works.
I am with Footprints, download the removal tool
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v60392881
IMO, Norton and McAfee are awful. I just use Microsoft's free Defender AV (and a bit of common sense).
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v60392881
IMO, Norton and McAfee are awful. I just use Microsoft's free Defender AV (and a bit of common sense).
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Windows 10 comes with really good Antivirus built in. There's no need for normal users to pay for Antivirus.
Also +1 for the Norton removal tool.
Also +1 for the Norton removal tool.
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Ah but, I recall, from the 1980's - Peter Norton's Utilities (made him a wealthy man) and a competitor PCTools delux from Central Point Software Inc.
These MS-DOS file managers and utility softwares made MS Dos a nicer place to be - for some of us.
Bloated and transformed nowadays - owned by Symantec.
PC Magazine Oct. 1986
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...HV9DAVkQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=PC Tools&f=false
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These MS-DOS file managers and utility softwares made MS Dos a nicer place to be - for some of us.
Bloated and transformed nowadays - owned by Symantec.
PC Magazine Oct. 1986
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...HV9DAVkQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=PC Tools&f=false
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To be fair norton worked ok for me but I kept having trouble with the three computer package, one would suddenly tell me it had expired and I would spend an hour on line with norton to fix it! It was very power hungry in the past but did improve.
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Yes years ago I had pc where I had to turn off norton to run a defrag!
I once found a computer where there were two AVs fighting over a single file. Somehow they got stuck in a loop copying the same 5kb file from each quarantine folder to their own.
I think one of them was Norton.
I've also seen a bad install of Symantec take out a large companies intranet at 11am every week for two months before someone looked in the right place. That was admin error though, not Symantec's fault really.
I think one of them was Norton.
I've also seen a bad install of Symantec take out a large companies intranet at 11am every week for two months before someone looked in the right place. That was admin error though, not Symantec's fault really.