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So I got my new T43, it came preloaded with Norton Antivirus 2005, but I own a copy of Norton Internet Security 2005, so I put in the NIS cd, and I installed, the install utility suposedly uninstalled Norton Antivirus for me. However, every time I boot up XP, or run a few select applications, it tries to "repair" NAV 2005, but gives me some message that you can't repair NAV, give a fresh install.

So, annoyed because it takes like 30 seconds to close, I hunted through the registry for a key it was activating, couldnt find, looked through program files, no luck, ran a few system cleanup programs, no luck.

Anyone have any ideas how I can get rid of this?

Go to the Symantec website and get "SymNRT". It is the Symantec Norton Removal Tool. It will probably remove both versions of Norton but you can reinstall. That should get you going.
Here's a link:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ts ... =&osv_lvl=

That worked, thanks a ton

Spoke too soon, its back

I was a hard core Norton fan until I read the test reports for 2006. The king of tools now is System Mechanic. It is cheaper, smaller, easier to install and uninstall, and it is better. I tried System Mechanic 5 Pro for 30 days (on XP SP2) and was hooked.

I thought it odd that System Mechanic has instructions for how to remove Norton. but I discovered why when I went to remove norton from my system. I am glad I never installed Norton 2005. Some users seem to have a real problem uninstalling Norton 2005 sufficiently to fully install System Mechanic!

Search System Mechanic, go to their site and read their instructions for uninstalling Norton. The publisher for SM 5 Pro is iolo. If you run a pre-XP version of Windows, you can save a lot by buying System Mechanic 4, which did a good job for users of systems from XP on back to '95.

Starvector.com still sells licensed copies (marked down to $12.00)

The uninstall went alright, I thought, but I reinstalled NIS. Maybe I'll try PC-cillen

I managed to uninstall Norton using its own uninstall app and then scrubbing the registry of all Norton references.

I installed ZoneAlarm 6 and am loving it. Makes Norton seem like a dinosaur (and it found a virus in email archives that evidently slipped through Norton's net)

Norton, McAfee, all the others... they ARE the virus.