I have recently bought McAfee antivirus but can't install it because I have to delete/uninstall Norton antivirus first.I have tried everyhting including Add/Remove programs on control panel and physically deleting the file from the program files hard drive.Also I have gone onto the Norton antivirus website and done something of the stuff they suggested but to no avail.\nPlease help?!!
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control panel---administrator tools--services\n\nlook for any symatec or norton service running, stop it and disable, Norton AV is notorious for bad uninstalls, sometimes you have to manually delete the diretcory, the registry entries ect.. there is some freeware Norton installers on Cnet if I recall correctly. personally your gonna replace one bad program with another, McAfee not much better.\n\n\n\nget the following, all are free for a safe surfing experience,\n\n\nANTI VIRAL\n\nAVG (free) http://free.grisoft.com/\n\n\nFIREWALL \n\nZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp\n\nWEB BROWSER - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird\n\nEMAIL  use thunderbird. It has a good built in spam filter and learns when you teach it. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird\n\nSPYWARE\n\n http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/\n\n http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html \n\n\nand if you have a wireless router follow these tips,\n\n\n1. Use WPA encryption (WPA-PSK) it's less crackable then WEP.\n\n2. Make a passphrase that is upper & lower case and has some numbers thrown in there as well, again harder to crack.\nsome like mAkE1t5eCurE0rel53 and as long as possible.\n\n3. Use MAC access control so only you or authorized PC's can connect (even if you do have encryption turned on)\n\n4. Turn off DHCP use static addresses.\n\n5. Turn off SSID (and change it) unless your card really needs it (some do)\n\n6. Change username/password of access unit front end\n\n7. Ensure you have the usual firewall enabled on your PC.\n\n8. Paranoia rules, turn WLAN off if your not using it :)\n\none last tip\ncontrol panel---administrator tools--services--messenger\n\nright clik on it\nstop the service\nthen disable it\nsave changes
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In my opinion, norton and mcafee both suck. These are the ones I use.\n\nAll of these are ones that I personally use and all are free.\n\nI-Worm/Stration · BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC · Worm/Generic.FX · Exploit.WMF\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5\n\nSpybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/\n\nhttp://superantispyware.com/\nSUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones!\nEasily remove over 100,000 pests such as SmitFraud, Vundo, WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, WinAntiVirus, AntiVermins and thousands more!\nMake sure after you download any of these, that you update them.
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Yes,that old worms been doing the rounds for quite some time now.I picked it up a few times downloading stuff.McAfee always stops it though.You can get 90 days free mcafee virus control on http://www.microsoftupdates.com/ .Theres also a free 30 day one at http://www.pctools.com/antivirus/ . Or free to keep virus progs at http://techsupportalert.com/
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Yes you can install more than one antivirus programs.. a good site to go to for some really helpfull information is "spyware warrior" just type in spyware warrior in yahoo search engine and take it from there, they have a blog and forum sight and will be able to provide you with the right information..they also have a list of rogue antivirus programs to avoid and a trusted list of antivirus products, I am sure you will find there blog and forum sight very helpful..I also agree with Crazy Eddie, BitDefender is rated very highly and try the free online scan with BitDefender *pc cillin, I have three antivirus programs and one is Norton, I have had no trouble with the other two being compatible with Norton, and currently looking at installing BitDefender in place of Norton as I have had a couple of little gliches with Norton and nothing to do with the other two anti virus programs, a problem I had with it long before I started looking at additional antivirus programs,which can be rectified but dont need the hassle of it, hope this is of some help, and check out the spyware warrior site http://spywarewarrior.com/    *A friend of mine uses pc cillin and is very impressed with it after experiencing problems with Mcafee a technician installed pc cillin and advised her to uninstall Mcafee, another friend had Mcafee but was still bombarded with trojans and viruses, hope this info helps, good luck.\n\nback again, with some more info you might find very helpful, sorry just cant help myself, a bit of an addict at this stuff now.. as I had to help a friend out and did a bit of searching, then thought of you, so here it is \n\nJust went into another site I recently came across, and it is very good..\n\nhttp://www.techsupportalert.com/free-vs-paid-av-part2.htm\n\n please go to the site above and read this article, it is very good, as this guy says and other people as well that not just one product alone is NOT  good enough, this guy has done a lot of  testing on different spyware products and on free products (free verses paid) and he found that the three that are most effective and have better detection and results, you can down load these three, and scan at different intervalls, he found that the detection with these three products was 95% which is bloody good.. A three layer system the free AVG anti-virus scanner, the free Ewido anti-trojan scanner and the free Microsoft Antispyware scanner detected 95%. read all the article so you can get a better understanding of what hes saying\n\nthats it!! I will leave you alone now.  I promise.. :)
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ues u can remove norton by going to the control panelthen add and remove programs and then download AVGfree antivirus for ur computer.
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I feel so sorry for you. I spent 12 hours fixing this very same problem the other day. You have to go online to McAfeehelp.com, to the live chats. When McAfee is installed on your computer, it is so integrated that they have to provide you with the files and instructions on how to completely remove them from your system. If you want to keep it on there, You would have to contact McAfee the same way and see what they tell you. Good luck, I will never deal with McAfee again after the inconvenience it caused me.
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If you read the reviews on Amazon you will find you arent alone. I dont know how Symantec has managed to keep selling Norton antivirus year after year when they get the same incredibly poor ratings. \n\nGo to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services, and see if the Security Center service is started. If not, right click and start it. I recommend you ditch Norton and get something else. I gave up after trying to upgrade 2 machines from the 2003 version to 2004. The lesser known products actually work much better.
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well unlike the people who have tryed answering your question im going to answer it right. just go into McAfee program folder and delete one of the files. then restart the computer and it should not even run or will give you an error message. if it keeps on doing it then try deleting a nother file. if it does not let u delete any files go into safe mode and do it from there. if you still have problems email me and we will talk\n\nhope this answers your question
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go to download.com\nthen download adadware\nthen spybot search and destroy\ncounterspy\nand mcafee antivirus\nrun scans with all of them
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Meeeeeeeeeeeeee,my computer gets v slow since i have downloaded it.i face many troubles when using other programs and my Norton anti-virus is no longer working...\nmy computer is infected by viruses,i dunno wt to do!
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Uninstall, delete all folders related to the software, and reinstall.  Make sure you have all other versions of antivirus software uninstalled and the you turn off all spyware and similar programs.
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You did not tell us what version of Norton you are using, the new Norton Anti virus also has Antispyware, there should be a function to turn off the antispyware on Norton, but there still can be conflicts. It is a real drain on system resources as well.\n\nI like the AVG anti virus, I do not use the avg antispyware because I have the free Windows Defender and Spybot Search and Destroy that is all you really need.\n\nNorton gives that message "needs attention" but that could be because your antivirus definitions are out of date. You have to take a close look at what it is telling you????\n\nYou can uninstall either in start programs or add remove.
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IN SHORT:\nMcAfee - FAR better than Norton.\n\nIN LONG:\nWhen it comes to antivirus software, I believe you should not go cheap (aka free).  Free products ARE better than nothing, but commercial products, in my opinion, have better chances of success and better chances of catching newer viruses.\n\nWhich would you rather, go to a doctor with 6 months experience or go to a doctor with 25 years of experience?  I want the experience so my chances of being misdiagnosed are far less.  \n\nFor business, I recommend McAfee.  For enterprise environment, McAfee Enterprise Edition is a great product that is highly manageable and easily installed.  McAfee has been making quality antivirus software for at least 20 years - they generally know what they are doing.  I've used them in a large environment before with almost ZERO conflict with any installed program (the one exception I can recall was Corel Easy CD Creator in the mid 90's).  They update virus definitions quickly and in my experience, a well updated network running McAfee will have a very LOW chance of experiencing a virus outbreak.\n\nFor business, I DO NOT recommend Symantec.  While things may well have changed in recent years, a few years back, I tried installing a current version of Symantec Antivirus Corporate edition on a Windows 2000 Terminal Server 6 months after 2000 was released.  Symantec did not support terminal services.  McAfee had been working great on terminal services EVEN IN BETA VERSIONS OF 2000 for months prior to it's release.  (I'm sure the current version supports Terminal Services, my point is, I find it difficult to excuse their slow progress in keeping the product compatible with current technologies).  A couple years later there was a couple of highly publicized virus outbreaks.  My company was hit with one the day of the outbreak early in the morning.  By midafternoon, McAfee had definitions to remove the virus. Another company I consulted for used Symantec.  They were hit as well and they used Symantec.  Symantec took two days to release a non "beta" definition file - they did release a tool to clean it - MANUALLY.  Had we used Symantec at the larger company I worked for it would have required hundreds of man-hours to clean the systems using the manual symantec tool.  McAfee covered us in hours.\n\nFor home use, I still lean towards McAfee, though I'll admit not as strongly as with corporate.  McAfee doesn't do nearly as much messing with your system that Norton does, but I have seen it occasionally interfere with e-mail, when it's on-demand email scanning is enabled. But that was only once on one client's system.\n\nI do NOT recommend NORTON ANTIVIRUS at all (for that matter, I do NOT recommend MOST norton products - the last product they made that didn't slow down the computer more than it sped it up was the Norton Utilities for Windows 3.1 in the early 90's).  My reasons are similar to corporate.  The norton definition files can be significantly slow in being released.  Further, it seems whenever there is a new service pack or even AOL version, Norton has a tendency to conflict with something.  I've seen issues where it couldn't install after being uninstalled because norton still leaves registry settings and files behind - they have a special tool to remove it completely - the simple need for such a tool is, in my opinion, a glaring example of why Norton is poorly programmed.\n\nIf you really don't consider your computer's safety and reliability important to you, then by all means, use a free product such as AVG, Avast, AntiVir, ClamAV, or another free product.\n\nTrend, BitDefender, CA's product, and the various others may be just fine.  But I trust experience and my data is important to me, so I'll pay for protecting it (until I switch to linux).\n\nHere are some links with reviews:\nhttp://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1738,4796,00.asp\nhttp://anti-virus-software-review.topte
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Your are correct to remove exsisting antivirus before installing a new one. Also only one antivirus should be installed on an operationg system at a time.\n\nYou will most likely have one of 3 antivirus. Norton, PC-Cillin, or MacAfee. The newer versions require a removal program available at the products website. I believe however these programs can be un-installed from the Add/Remove Program in the Control Panel.\n\nThe antivirus you have choosen to install, eTrust EZ Antivirus, form CA is a good program. They are a well respected member of the Security Community. With the programs you need to protect your computer these days I would not recommend it unless you computer is a P-III and has min. of 256mb of RAM. In conjunction to the antivirus there are several other antispyware programs that should be up and running.\n\nI would like you to consider freeware alternative to CA product. They demand less resources and are as I noted free.\n\nhttp://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic3616.html\n\n\nGood luck.
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go in through safe mode and remove it manually from your C-program file- and the specific file you are looking for.\n\nwhile you are at it, write down all of the stuff norton doesnt catch, and delete it while you are in safe mode.  \n\ngood luck.. and this WILL fix your problem.
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Personally, I like Norton System Works, but that is just me from past experiences. McAfee is wonderful but it made my new computer go extremely slow. I Had everything with McAfee, and it took forever to boot up and Norton just runs in the background and didn't make a whole lot of difference when my computer started up but did the same protection as McAfee. So I would say go with Norton System Works, it's about 60.00 but it's worth it, in my opinion. Hoep my advice helped! =) ~R
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Yes my computer became f*****g slow . No applications worked . I had to remove this damn thing ang then only everything returned to normal . I suggest you install AVG or Kaspersky but not the damn Mcafee