Norton 360

[Lady G]

Does anyone else have this? Every couple weeks it seems it tells me there is a error that can only be fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling...it's quite frankly a pain in the hiney! Anyone know anything to do so it quits doing this??

Thanks in advance,
Gin

[Reefscape]

provide me with the exact error message and i shall speak to a norton service partner on your behalf...Screen dump if possible too...

Niko

[KingOfTheDeep]

niko to the rescue!

[Lady G]

Every time it say's there are 16 issues effecting your computer. To fix the problem it must be uninstalled and reinstalled. That's it, if you go to the home screen it all of the PC Security, Transacion Security, back-up and restore and the PC tune up all say not secure, not optimized, and not protected and they all say they will not work until the program is uninstalled and reinstalled. I always do the uninstall and reinstall obviously as I want my computer protected, but it is happening alot and I am sick of it. I never had this problem with my Mcaffee when I had it and really am considering just junking this program and switching back.

Thank you!

[Blueiz]

Best thing to do is uninstall it and find a new service to protect. Norton is known for being a PITA.

Blue

[Reefscape]

When you get the error, it should provide you with an error code and it should be in the format of two lots of 4 numbers...like 21234, 5678 or 1234,123456789
Need that code please if possible

Niko

[Lady G]

Niko..I don't really get a "error" message it's more like a pop up, while I'm online a box pops up and say's I need to uninstall and reinstall. There are no numbers with it.:(

[IceH2O]

Norton sucks, I always had problems with it. Switched to Trend Micro Antivirus and its been no problems.

[Lady G]

I am most likely going to switch to something else soon...I am so sick of looking for my box with the product code to reinstall the dang thing!:pc:

[jpappy789]

I hate norton. Had problems with it as well...switch!

[Reefscape]

to be honest, if your getting all these problems with it, it does come to the point where you should dump it and go with another security product....

[Blueiz]

AVG is free and its a good one too!

Blue

[Lady G]

Cool, maybe I will check that one out for now until I can buy another and just get rid of Norton now. That's what I hate you spend all this money on these stupid things then have problems with it!

[legendaryfrog]

Eh, I used to have norton and still ended up getting viruses all the time. I swicthed to OPERA internet browser (from IE) and all my problems went away.

[IceH2O]

Eh, I used to have norton and still ended up getting viruses all the time. I swicthed to OPERA internet browser (from IE) and all my problems went away.

OPERA isn't made by IE, just looks like IE.

I use Firefox, best browser I've ever used.

[MammoMK11]

Get a mac, then no worries ;)

[Lady G]

OPERA isn't made by IE, just looks like IE.

I use Firefox, best browser I've ever used.

Someone at work was talking about foxfire, they liked it alot but said there were alot of things they couldn't do??

[IceH2O]

I haven't ran into that problem myself yet though my kids say sometimes they do.

OPERA is a good one but for IE type I might try MOZILLA. I hate IE. I don't like the look feel or the security bugs and packages you have to DL daily.

What I like about Firefox is the add ons and extensions. You add what you want, no forced acceptance.

[Lady G]

Well, Norton is gone!!! Thanks guy's for all your imput.

Ice I will look into the foxfire, thanks!

[j_chicago]

AVG is free and its a good one too!

Blue


I agree, been using AVG for 5 years, ever since I saw it on Screensavers.
And Firefox is also a lot better then IE. Then add ZoneAlarm and your set, except for some other shareware clean up tools.

[Lady G]

Hey, if I switch to foxfire will I have to redownload everything on my computer? What if I don't like it, is it easy to switch back? Sorry but big changes scare me and I'm always afraid to loose things:uhoh:

Is foxfire good with game sites? What do ppl have problems with when using it?

[j_chicago]

After downloading Firefox, you shouldn't need to download anything else, it will import all the bookmarks and preferences when you first start it. You will want to download some of the great add-ons though...

If you don't like it, which you will (its less of a memory hog as IE), you can quickly switch IE back as your default browser by starting IE, it should ask you if you want to make it your default.

[Lady G]

Once I do get it and decide I want to keep it, should I then uninstall the IE?

[j_chicago]

I wouldn't, who knows what Microsoft has linked that program to....you uninstall it maybe your shift button stops working.

[Lady G]

True...didn't think about that! Well if/when I make the change I'll post an let ya know what I think!

[Reefscape]

it will have no effects at all having IE and FF on the same computer. Oh, and you can actually completly remove IE from a computer running windows xp or above, but that way by design...

Good luck

Niko

[Lady G]

Ok, I'll give it a try soon...oh, and I have vista. I know ppl say they have tons of trouble w/ Vista, but I love it myself.

[Reefscape]

no problems with vista from me either...good deal !!

[Lady G]

Well, I am now running firefox!! I like it so far the only thing I like better with the IE at this point...my spell check, yes firefox underlines the words but doesn't give suggestion spellings. I miss that, since well my spelling sucks!