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Norton is notoriously bad at being uninstalled... TBH that's one of the reasons I'd never touch the product again... I've learned the hard way!!
There is a Norton Removal tool (how bad is that for a company to provide a special tool to remove their own product!!) which may help.... Here
There is a Norton Removal tool (how bad is that for a company to provide a special tool to remove their own product!!) which may help.... Here
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Why is no one using Microsofts own free downloadable product for doing this - Windows Defender? I use it and its never let me down or conflicted with my anti virus or firewall. Its probably the best free product Microsoft has done.
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Norton is notoriously bad at being uninstalled... TBH that's one of the reasons I'd never touch the product again... I've learned the hard way!!
There is a Norton Removal tool (how bad is that for a company to provide a special tool to remove their own product!!) which may help.... Here
There is a Norton Removal tool (how bad is that for a company to provide a special tool to remove their own product!!) which may help.... Here
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Do also remember the lovely Computer Security Guide sticky post at the top of this section, which I lovingly wrote a few years back - the principals still hold true today.
A couple of points:
Products like Ad aware and Spybot are free for a reason. They are very good and way better than having nothing at all, but I would all but guarantee that one or two of the better commercial anti spyware products will find things that they miss.
Secondly - there is one very effective way to massively limit the potential damage that viruses / trojans etc can do to your PC - STOP RUNNING WITH ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS!!! It is probably the single biggest security c*ck up that Microsoft have created. It is simply not necessary to run with admin rights all the time (as is the default with Windows accounts)
There is a free program called DropMyRights which will make changes to the admin account or just setup two accounts - a limited user one for day-to-day stuff and an admin account - access this every now and again to do your updates etc and that's it.
A couple of points:
Products like Ad aware and Spybot are free for a reason. They are very good and way better than having nothing at all, but I would all but guarantee that one or two of the better commercial anti spyware products will find things that they miss.
Secondly - there is one very effective way to massively limit the potential damage that viruses / trojans etc can do to your PC - STOP RUNNING WITH ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS!!! It is probably the single biggest security c*ck up that Microsoft have created. It is simply not necessary to run with admin rights all the time (as is the default with Windows accounts)
There is a free program called DropMyRights which will make changes to the admin account or just setup two accounts - a limited user one for day-to-day stuff and an admin account - access this every now and again to do your updates etc and that's it.
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Products like Ad aware and Spybot are free for a reason. They are very good and way better than having nothing at all, but I would all but guarantee that one or two of the better commercial anti spyware products will find things that they miss.
Secondly - there is one very effective way to massively limit the potential damage that viruses / trojans etc can do to your PC - STOP RUNNING WITH ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS!!! It is probably the single biggest security c*ck up that Microsoft have created. It is simply not necessary to run with admin rights all the time (as is the default with Windows accounts)
although the UAC is so annoying people turn it off, defeating the point of it (me included 
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Chris what are your thoughts on Windows Defender? I've used this since the first beta version came out and have personally found it miles better than spybot and adaware which I used to use but never again. No one else here seems to be using it which I find quite astonishing.
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Together with Kaspersky Internet Security, I use Ad-Aware and SUPERAntiSpyware.
I did use Spybot but it never found anything even when Ad-Aware did.
I did use Spybot but it never found anything even when Ad-Aware did.
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