The
symantec site with the instructions for the manual uninstall of NSW2002 for Win98SE say:
Part 2 - Remove NAV 2003
If you previously installed Norton AntiVirus 2003 (this program is included as part of the Norton SystemWorks suite), run the Rnav2003.exe removal utility to ensure that all components of previous versions of NAV have been uninstalled... ... NAV 2003 cannot be uninstalled manually.
Then I have downloaded and run the Rnav2003.exe removal utility, reboot, and install Avast again.... always the same problem!
What MS Office do you have, I mean, the version?
I have office 2000 installed.
If you install the last MDAC drivers from Microsoft, will it help? I think MDAC is on version 2.8
I have also installed the 2.8 version of the MDAC drivers, but this not help me!
Finally I have try this:
1 - uninstal Avast and NSW2002
2 - reboot
3 - manually delete ALL the registry keys, files and folder such as Norton, Symantec, NAV and Avast
4 - Reboot
5 - Install for the LAST times Avast4
6 - Start -> Run "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\REGSVR32.EXE ACTSKIN4.OCX"
7 - Reboot
8 - Try to open the main window of Avast
RESULT:
UNKNOWN ERROR
The program can't load the skin. The function "usiGetSkin" is failed.
Sorry... but Avast won't work on my PC!
One of the reasons because I've choised Avast, is that I need an SMTP and POP3 antivirus checker, since I use Mozilla as mail client.
Now I'm forced to try AVG.
The new version of free AVG (expexted for november, now there is the beta version) has this function too.
Thank you for the attention and the patience... but the evidence is that this program is not for my PC, even if we have not understood the cause.
Best regards,
Volans
P.S. I will return to check new messages in the next days, therefore if you have other suggestions... post it and I will try them!