I would like to Disable Norton AV and instal AVAST home on her system
I thought of using MSCONFIG or stopping the Norton Services from the Control panel.
Hi,
Msconfig & Services: in principle, a good idea
However:
- NORTON AV seriously messes up the PC and often makes it impossible for other AVs to run without crashes if any traces of it are left.
- avast AV-Shield will check if NortonAV-Services are present in the registry and disable itself then (hopefully, otherwise your PC might crash).
Avast checking on startup if the Norton-AV-service is running would be pointless, as NAV could start later and then crash (the Services Load order is pretty random in Win)
Vlk could elucidate this..
Don't you have the installation CD/files & registration #/key of Norton ?
it'd be best if you completely remove any traces of Norton/Symantec (at LEAST of Norton-AV) from disk & registry, if you want to install avast