 kingdome74Emotionally UnavailablePremium
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Re: Is Norton Antivirus 2012 back in the saddle? Is NAV worth spending the ten bucks to switch from MSE? |
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 SparrowCrystal SkyPremium
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Sachakhand | said by kingdome74:Is NAV worth spending the ten bucks to switch from MSE?
Definitely.
I don't know your system details, but on Windows 7 64 bit, I could never get MSE to work properly. I tried it for the sake of saying "I tried", but re-installed NIS 2012 within a week.
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said by kingdome74:Is NAV worth spending the ten bucks to switch from MSE? Why not try the free trial version and decide from there? |
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kingdome74Emotionally UnavailablePremium
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| said by antdude:said by kingdome74:Is NAV worth spending the ten bucks to switch from MSE? Why not try the free trial version and decide from there? Honestly I never trusted Norton to uninstall properly. In the past I have spent hours cleaning out the registry trying to rid my computer of Norton/Symantec entrees.
I run Win 7 64 on 7 computers and never had a problem with MSE and having read the polls and whatnot here I thought that MSE was a decent product. Maybe I will give NAV a trial and see how it works now. It couldn't have taken much to make it better than it used to be. It so dominated the computers we used to joke about "Norton Fanspeed 2006".
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Lorton, VA
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| said by kingdome74:Honestly I never trusted Norton to uninstall properly. In the past I have spent hours cleaning out the registry trying to rid my computer of Norton/Symantec entrees.
Two days ago I spent (and billed for) 3 hours of manually uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection from a customer's server.
Repairing failed Symantec uninstalls is a familiar routine.
I've been cleaning up after them since 1998 or so.
This cleanup was especially groovy because Symantec natively corrupts the network adapters with it's Teefer 2 driver.
There were no shortage of posts from folks who lost network connectivity after de-Symantec-ing their systems.
Note:
For a Symantec Uninstall victim who can't get their network adapters reinstalled in the device manager
and
have this error
Class installer failed. Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
in their setupapi.log ...
One tested solution is here said by Sysinternals post 4 :Backup and then delete the REG_BINARY value 'CONFIG' (not the "network" key) from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network
You then restart the computer and either Windows will install the card automatically, or you will have to kick it off. If it is already in Device Manager, you may have to update the driver. NV
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| said by Noah Vail:said by kingdome74:Honestly I never trusted Norton to uninstall properly. In the past I have spent hours cleaning out the registry trying to rid my computer of Norton/Symantec entrees.
Two days ago I spent (and billed for) 3 hours of manually uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection from a customer's server. I'm asking because I don't usually work with Servers, but does CleanWipe work on a server? That should remove all traces, and doesn't take 3 hours.
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| said by towerdave:I'm asking because I don't usually work with Servers, but does CleanWipe work on a server? That should remove all traces, and doesn't take 3 hours. This was 2k3 and CW did function. I'd guess it saved me some time.
However, it left behind a LOT of registry entries; including the references for the Teefer2 driver.
An hour of time went to restoring the NIC drivers and nursing some of the network services.
NV
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