PLEASE, please help me. I contacted Symantec via live chat because we just renewed our subscription to Norton, but the confirmation email we received contained a link that didn’t work. The link was supposed to provide instructions as to how to complete the renewal process. When I contacted Symantec via live chat, instead of just giving me the instructions, the agent connected with my computer (with my permission) and proceed to do unknown things for unknown reasons. She changed the date on our computer’s calendar to Dec. 25th (???) and then proceeded to do things to our Windows configuration (I think…I know nothing about computers…that just what it looked like when I watched her onscreen). At any rate, the computer shut down spontaneously as she was working, so we lost our connection. Now, my computer isn’t working properly in many small, weird, hard-to-explain ways. For starters, I can’t get any further help from Symantec because, when I am in their site, I can’t connect to live chat. I tried clicking on the "email us" link on one of their pages and the page just sits there and does nothing. I also tried the "call us or have us call you" page and that doesn’t work either – I just get an "error on the page". Symantec website issue? I would think so except all kinds of other things on my computer don’t work. Window’s Media Player has ceased to function. I get an "internal application error" which I have tried unsucessfully to repair. Realplayer doesn’t work either – more "internal" error messages. When I go to certain websites, for example my bank’s website – www.53.com – there should be a login box on the left hand side and it’s simply not there on my screen. However, if I go to that same site from my work computer, the screen looks fine. So again, it must be our computer. Same thing if I go to capitalone.com. I can’t access the login screen, but I can if I do it from my work computer. I know so little about computer functionality that I am not even sure what "Windows" actually does. I know it’s any "operating system" for your computer, but I’m not even sure what that means. : ) Having said that, I would dare say that Windows XP on my computer appears to be corrupted from something the Symantec agent did. Can someone please help? Do any of these weird problems ring a bell (Windows Media Player errors, websites missing login boxes on my screen)? Do I need to run some kind of registry cleaner? I am about to go nuts trying to figure this out. Any help would be appreciate. Thank you!
Windows installer popping out on each Vista boot?
Hi all, I keep getting a Windows installer pop up window saying ‘preparing to install…’ and nothing more each time I boot into Vista. It only pops up then. I’m pretty confident it has to do with a corrupted installation of Symantec NIS, since I was unable to install it automatically and thus had to do it manually (deleting files, cleaning registry…)
I’ve tried disable the Windows Installer service but to no avail. I’ve also tried Microsoft Windows Install Clean Up tool, but the offending installation doesn’t show there (I guess it’s due to having removed it by hand).
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks!
Oh sorry I meant I was unable to *uninstall* Symantec NIS automatically, that’s why I deleted it manually. I’ve done the registry cleanups with CCleaner btw.
Computer Help: How to fix really slow computer?
So here is the deal. Apparently, my computer is supposed to be "the fastest one in the house" (according to my dad). But when I was younger, I downloaded Limewire, And all sorts of different fonts and cursors from sketchy websites (I was young and stupid apparently).
Now, my computer is really slow. It takes about 15 mins to boot up, and it takes about 10 seconds to just respond to my clicks.
I have removed Limewire since then, and tried to get rid of all of the fonts and stuff, but that hasn’t really helped much.
I have Spybot and Symantec to get rid of spyware and viruses, but it is still so slow.
I would ask my dad, but I don’t want him to know that I had Limewire. >.<
Is there a software I can buy that can help me fix it? Or should I just buy a new hardrive and start over?
Thanks!
BSOD constant while booting issue, help?
*Driver_irql_not_less_or_equal
*0xD1 error with other sectors listed (i.e. 0xeed77cf1)
*PXE-E61 failed on network LAN boot
WinXP, SP2 (had SP3, but downgraded due to vulnerability problems).
AMD, Compaq Presario M2105US
System Restore (need to be in "normal mode") & Last Known Configuration don’t help.
Chkdsk fails on reboot and scandisk does not run in safe mode
BIOS settings have been reset to default
I had Symantec Anti-virus w/Live Update, but that has not been performing well lately and I deleted it as Live Update was not actually Live Updating it. Any anti-virus software I dl, it refuses for some odd reason. What I do have installed is Malware Bytes & Wise Registry Cleaner 4.
I have seen most tech forums on the Web and none of them have been providing me a right answer, so I will take suggestions from here. Thanks to those that help me, I truly appreciate it. 🙂
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