I was Norton fanatic for years, back to the 80s. But no longer. Even on my fast home builts, Norton bogged it down, took control, prevented adjustments, and just in general pissed me off. About a year or so ago I'd had enough. I uninstalled everything with Norton on it and installed free AVG AV and free Zone alarm firewall, AdAware, Spybot Search & Destroy, and Spyware Blaster, all free. I have not missed Norton. I consider the price I paid for Norton a lesson in experience.
I know you've paid for it, but with a 700 MHz machine, you're limping. May I suggest removing Norton all together and installing those I've mentioned. If you do so you'll need to get the Norton uninstaller from the site, and then get a good registry cleaner such as CCleaner or RegScrubXP (both free) and run them. I've even edited my registry looking for anything Norton or Symantec and removed them all. If you're not happy, reinstall Norton.
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Norton Internet Security 2007 help says it runs every 240 minutes. (On XP home ed.) That's too often and it seems to have other triggers since it can run twice in 40 minutes. Basically it reduces my 700 MHz cpu to a crawl, I either reduce its frequency or uninstall Live Update.
Is there a setup file I can edit to change the timing?
If I uninstall which is the second half of turning it off do I go back to the easy and simple live update by manually going to symantec's website?
Finally even though I have Admin status some Symantec folders are 'green' blocked read only and I can't seem to override the read only function. Any ideas?
Thanks Kerm
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