I always used to shy away from companies that provided customers with tools to completely remove their products from a computer system. Two notorious companies that provide those tools are Symantec / Norton with their Norton Removal Tool and McAfee with their Consumer Product Removal Tool. These tools are indispensable when removing Norton or McAfee [...]
McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool
Posted by Martin in Windows, software TAGS in Windows, software20
Aug
3
Jul
User reports began to spread on the Internet who encountered a blank device manager and network connections after upgrading their Windows XP system to Service Pack 3. The problem was largely attributed to software that was monitoring the Registry for changes, many Symantec customers had problems with a feature called SymProtect that would cause the [...]
Symantec Registry Fix for Windows XP Service Pack 3
Posted by Martin in Security, Windows TAGS in Security, Windows10
Jun
Users with a recent Symantec product faced several problems after updating their computer from Windows XP Service Pack 2 to the latest version, among them removed network connections, an empty device manager, unusable wireless connections and thousands of bogus Registry entries. This was apparently caused by the toolsymprotect, a part of many Symantec applications, that [...]
Symantec: Disable SymProtect before upgrading to Windows XP SP3
Posted by Martin in Knowledge, Windows TAGS in Knowledge, Windows28
May
If you are running the Symantec products Norton Internet Security 2008, Norton SystemWorks 2008, Norton 360 or Norton AntiVirus 2008 on a machine with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and want to upgrade to Service Pack 3 you should disable the SymProtect feature before doing so or your operating system could go kaboom. More precisely [...]
Norton Removal Tool
Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Tools, Windows TAGS in Operating Systems, Tools, Windows30
Aug
I have been using Norton products in the past and was always astonished how resource hungry those products were. They surely looked professional which was the main reason why I did install them but they slowed down the system and were really hard to remove from the system.
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