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Norton FirewallSecurity- 4 years old and running. Now what?

Aug 24, 2011 1:41PM PDT

I bought this AMD Athlon box in 2006. It has half a gig of RAM, 50 GB of hard disk, and a 500 GB extra slave hard disk I put in last week purely as a place to back up all my files.

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Link for the (already) suggested .. Norton Removal Tool
Aug 25, 2011 9:46AM PDT

Steve..

Scroll down to where you see, "I have a Norton 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011 product", at the below link. Running the tool should uninstall it without a problem.

Download and run the Norton Removal Tool to uninstall your Norton product

If you do encounter any problems, try disabling any Symantec/Norton related processes, prior to giving the tool a second go around.

Best of luck..
Carol

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thanks
Aug 25, 2011 10:25AM PDT

I removed Norton just fine. I'm now reading about Firewalls and AV freeware...

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(NT) Glad we were able to help. Good work! :)
Aug 26, 2011 6:14AM PDT
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Norton removal tool
Aug 25, 2011 12:30AM PDT

Go to your favorite search engine and download the NORTON REMOVAL TOOL. You will have the choice of running it or saving it to file. I would save it to MY DOCUMENTS and run it from there, this usually does the removal pretty well. Then decide what you want to use for AV software, there are lots of opinions, choices, preferences, everybody has a different idea. Do a little research and you are bound to come up with something viable. There are lots of freebies out there and they seem to work quite well but they are free for a reason, there is always somethin', as they say. My personal choice for the past 3 years has been Kaspersky, some will disagree and use something different but the KAS has been flawless for me on 4 systems OS's Win XP PRO, WIN VISTA and WIN7.

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Quick help
Aug 25, 2011 4:12AM PDT

Yes, get the "Norton Removal Tool", its free and it does the job. Found at Norton's website or google for it.