Re: Norton Protection Center 2006

The easiest way to remove it would be to remove all things Norton or
Symantec. Although, there are still followers of this 'bloatware', the
numbers are declining.....and just try to get meaningful support! The
Norton AV alone is about 70Meg, without the defs......a perfectly good free
AV, like Avast!, is about 7Meg with defs.....can you say 'bloatware?' The
more crap they throw into the app, the more you have to go wrong or conflict
with another proggy. The Norton/Symantec applications are also very
invasive. Even after uninstalling, there is a ton of detritus scattered
throughout the machine that must be removed manually if you want it gone.
Sorry I didn't answer your question on the features, just wanted to throw my
2 cents in about Norton....I'm sure you can find those that will praise it.
Heirloom, old and just my opinion....I could
be wrong


"nurseshark" <nurseshark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:262452BD-170F-4D56-9362-6B1096BEB036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I just installed Norton Antivirus 2006, and Symantec, in their infinite
> wisdom, decided to add Norton Protection Center to all their products this
> year. It has its own button on the taskbar...it monitors the Windows XP
> firewall (I use ZoneAlarm), checks your Windows Update status, and
> provides
> antivirus alerts (which the regular Norton Antivirus does anyway). Oh
> yeah...and it constantly pops up.
>
> So, I've tried deleting the button through the program and also turned it
> off for the three things it monitors. It can't be deleted through right
> clicking. I don't know the exact name to terminate the process in
> TaskManager
> (Norton has about 10 things on there).
>
> I know this is a trivial problem, but it's really bugging me. Does anyone
> know how to remove it? I'm not keen on mucking in the registry since I
> don't
> really know what I'm doing. I do have Hjack this if someone knows how to
> interpret the log.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Terri


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