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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: merlin on February 10, 2005, 11:19:50 PM

Title: Symantec Norton removal registry
Post by: merlin on February 10, 2005, 11:19:50 PM: Hi, New here.

Several of the Avast procedures are disabled because it says that I have Symantec or Norton running on my system.

I have not but did have at one time.

I have removed every registry entry having to do with Norton or symantec that I can find and still, Avast will not function properly.

Any suggestions or perhaps a more thourough cleaner than regedit's find.

Thanks a a lot, I do appreciate any help.

Merlin
Title: Re: Symantec Norton removal registry
Post by: DavidR on February 11, 2005, 12:09:51 AM: How did you try to clean the registry?

Have you looked at this - Manual Removal NAV 2004 (http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2004020909040706?Open&src=&docid=2001092114452606&nsf=nav.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=)

Also try running hijackthis and see if there is anything shown there - Download HijackThis.zip (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip)

Edit - If you could reduce the size of your avatar, we usually keep to 100x100 so the display looks the same.
Title: Re: Symantec Norton removal registry
Post by: Spyros on February 11, 2005, 09:47:19 AM: Which version of NAV did you have? If it was 2003 and back, search the forum or Symantec's site for "rnav2003.exe". That will take care of it... If it is 2004, do as described above by DavidR.
Title: Re: Symantec Norton removal registry
Post by: merlin on February 11, 2005, 08:25:46 PM: Thanks for the info! it is much appreciated! Tried to clean the registry with Hijackthis and Regedit plus others. It is almost as if the Norton entries were self replicating after rebooting. Aaarrgg!
I had NORTON SYSTEMWORKS 2003 installed. I now use open source or freeware.
I use HijackThis on a regular basis and it did not get it all.

I will try as you suggest! Thanks again for the swift replies to my query.

merlin