When I bought my computer at Best Buy, they installed Norton. Now everytime I turn my computer on, it says I need to update and puts me thru heck trying to log on until I push Cancel. It says my protection has expired. I just want it off there and need to know how to get free virus protection. How can I get that off my computer?
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Norton, AVG ,Avast are free anti virus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers.You can download free softwares at http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/ spywareremover.html .You can also run a free registry scan using utilities from
http://re7.info
Here are some links to get rid of Norton
http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Norton_Removal_Tool_SymNRT_d4749.html
When you google for
Norton removal tools
you get plenty of links that will help you
When you got rid of it, you should do a scan with a registry cleaner
Comodo Registry Cleaner It is one of the best free cleaners It is completely safe to use, even for the less experienced computer users.
http://registry-cleaner.comodo.com/
You can protect your computer very well with free programs. The best way is to use a combination of anti virus and anti spyware programs
Anti virus and firewall pro
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html
or
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
in combination with
http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
Threatfire is an anti virus, that can be installed next to any other anti virus program on the same computer
http://www.threatfire.com/
This is a very good program, that completely runs in the background
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html
Anti spyware
http://en.kioskea.net/telecharger/telecharger-105-malwarebytes-anti-malware
http://en.kioskea.net/telecharger/telecharger-775-spybot
Installing these programs, will not use any extra RAM or CPU usage.
Just use the uninstall in control panel to get rid of it and as for a free anti virus I would suggest avast. It’s simple to use works great and even prevents most mal-ware too. the only annoyance is the sound which can be easily turned off with a click of a button. And one of the best features every anti-virus should have. a boot time scan. You can tell it to scan your computer before windows even starts this way you don’t have to worry about windows security stopping it from erasing a virus that’s protected by windows.
I know its annoying. To remove it go to control pannel –> Add and remove programs and select norton anti-virus and select uninstall (or double click on it).
Once uninstall reboot and then download whichever anti-virus you want.
Assuming your on windows,
go to, Start button -> Control Panel -> "Add Remove programs"
and in there you should see a few items that say Norton take them just uninstall them one at a time.
As for free anti virus I would suggest AVG (http://free.avg.com/)
go to add and remove programs and remove all the nortons amd symantec files you see i would also scan the reg
add and remove progs, uninstall norton completely, then download AVG free.
Go to your start up menu, control panel, unistall program, scroll down to Norton and then go to avg. Avg has great free downloads, that’s what I use.