Symantec Registry Fix for Windows XP Service Pack 3

Posted by Martin in Security, Windows  TAGS in Security, Windows

10

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 [...]


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Symantec: Disable SymProtect before upgrading to Windows XP SP3

Posted by Martin in Knowledge, Windows  TAGS in Knowledge, Windows

28

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 [...]


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