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Windows Vista Couple of problems after uninstalling Norton

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by broni, 2007/09/29.

  1. 2007/09/29
    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    Norton Internet Security came preinstalled with my computer.
    I never liked Norton, so I've decided to uninstall it today.
    Things went pretty smoothly (as for Norton).
    I restarted my computer, and went to "regedit ", and as expected, I found some Symantec leftovers, which I removed.
    Now, my problems are:

    1. In Program Data folder, I still can find Symantec sub-folder, from which I was able to remove all files, except for one, located in:
    C:\Program Data\Symantec\LiveUpdate\2007-09-29_Log.ALUSchedulerSvc.LiveUpdate
    It won't delete normally. I tried "MoveOnBoot ". It failed. It also seems to be updating itself, because after restart, I can see very current time in "Date Modified" column.
    Any idea, how to get rid of it?

    2. After getting rid of Norton, I enabled Vista firewall, but it gives me two problems:
    a. After every restart, it gets turned off, somehow, I got a warning message in my taskbar, and I had to enable it manually. Tired of it, I temporarily installed "PC Tools Firewall ", so I'm protected for now. Any ideas, here?
    b. With Vista firewall on, I wasn't able to get internet connection, either through Firefox, or IE. I tried to put Firefox into Vista's firewall "exceptions ", but it didn't help. Then, I tried to run "firefox.exe" "As Administrator ", and strangely enough, I was able to connect at one moment, but when I restarted Firefox, it wouldn't connect, again.
    When I check "firefox.exe" properties, a checkmark in "Run As Administrator" is gone. When I re-check it, Firefox will connect.
    Besides, running it as administrator, I have to click "OK" on that permission window, every time, I want to start Firefox.

    I can live with that third party firewall, but I'd like to know what's going on with Vista firewall.
     
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    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    OK...
    I solved problem #1
    I overlooked couple of SOB Norton in "Add/Remove ":
    -LiveUpdate
    -LiveUpdate Notice
    I uninstalled them, and Symantec folder in Program Data is gone.
     
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    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    Problem #2 solved, as well...
    After Norton LiveUpdate, everything is fine.
    It looks like Norton's leftover was turning Vista's firewall off on reboot, and my all browsers do connect now.
    I knew, I hated Norton!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:
     
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  5. 2007/09/29
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    Thanks for this informative, self-diagnosed topic, broni! :)
     
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    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    I did swear badly a few times, while in a process...LOL
     
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  7. 2007/10/09
    Richard Mitnick

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    New AV?

    So, what are you using for anti-virus?
     
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  8. 2007/10/09
    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    I installed AVG Free Edition.
    I had it since my Windows 98 rig, and I've been happy with it.
     
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  9. 2007/10/10
    Richard Mitnick

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    Thanks for the confirmation. Me, too.

    On two XP machines, I had Zone Alarm, my old favorite, but the fire wall was driving me nuts. I had purchased AV only in 6.X, $19.00. But, when they went to 7.x, they gave me, free and unwanted, the whole suite.

    So, I dumped it, did a search on "only anti-virus ", and the buzz was for AVG free, and it has been fine. I use just the Windows fire wall, behind my hardware fire wall in my router.

    On my two Vista machines, Dell gave me Norton's suite. I turned off the fire wall and it has been behaving nicely.

    When my Norton 15 months is up, I will probably go to AVG on all machines, but get paid versions for the automatic scanning.
     
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  10. 2007/10/10
    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst Thread Starter

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    I have a very same setting.

    As for Norton (came with my computer, free for three months), that was the first thing, I uninstalled - very next day after purchase. I hate that thing.:eek:
     
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