New Norton Killer Available

[Andromeda43]

Norton continues to be the worse virus I ever have to remove from customers PC's. Again this week a customer was begging me to help him with a Norton 2006 install that was driving him nuts. It was reporting a virus and then refusing to remove it. And, his computer was running so slow he couldn't stand it any more. Total frustration!!!!!

WELL, the old Norton Killer I had said it was out of date and refused to work.

Norton also would not uninstall itself. So I did what I have to do so often and I physically ripped it out by the roots.

Then I installed both AVG 7.1 FREE and Trojan Hunter and AdAware SE/Personal and Spybot S&D and got his computer completely clean of all malware.

I had to remove over 200 pieces of spyware. Some were pre-installed by the computer's manufacturer.

After I got home, I did some Googling and found that indeed there is a new Norton Removal Tool. It comes in three parts now, not just two.

So, I packaged them up (zipped) and uploaded them to my Rented Site where others can easily download them.

From:

http://tools.house-tech.net

In the "Computer Tools" section,

Download:

NortonKiller.exe

Put it in a Desktop folder and run it to unpack it.

There will be three files, each one numbered consecutively.

Run file #1, then file #2 and then (guess what) file #3.

When you're done running the three files, Norton will be GONE!

I hope this will help those who are as sick of Norton as I am.

Bartender! Beers all around!

Andromeda43 B)

[Tarun]

This page still holds the SymNRT utility. Hopefully it won't still break BITS. Though even if it does break BITS, it's nothing that Dial-a-fix v0.60.0.13 (2006-06-27) can't fix.

[Wijono]

After a few years using Norton AntiVirus I am getting disappointed now as I mentioned in my post as follows:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...783&st=105#

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Hey thanks....

[Jeremy]

Thanks for that. I love stripping Norton off slow systems.

[EchoNoise]

Sweet, been trying to find something like this...

[Thunderbolt 2864]

I use to like Norton products, not anymore. They are slow, uses up way too many system resouces and its unreliable. Stay away from Norton.

[nitroshift]

I wonder how they persuade people into buying that piece of cr/-\p. Makes a Pentium 4 run like a Pentium 2.

[Martin Eddy]

Probably the same reason people buy Gaming Computers with Celerons in them, because most people don't have a clue. It's up to intelligent people like us (lol) to edumacate them. Also a lot of systems come shipped with norton and a 3 month subscription.(Because Symantec pay the likes of Dell,HP, etc to put it on there)

[EchoNoise]

Probably the same reason people buy Gaming Computers with Celerons in them, because most people don't have a clue. It's up to intelligent people like us (lol) to edumacate them. Also a lot of systems come shipped with norton and a 3 month subscription.(Because Symantec pay the likes of Dell,HP, etc to put it on there)

hahahaha, thats a good post, its so true about the celeron thing! and the funny thing is... People also buy ex-government computers and thing they are the best thing, hell i know its for people on a budget/or have no money, but still!

[prx984]

heheheh i hate norton antivirus. my dad got one from his company, that and a version of mcaffe. and i gotta tell you, it slowed down his amd 2200 it made it run bad, around 5 minutes too boot up (before it was about 45 seconds) i was amazed at that, then i told him about AVG not too long ago. he hadnt had any virus protection on his computer because he was angry at them all just because of norton and mcaffe. so when he installed avg, he hasnt removed it. its been on the computer for over 5 months now

bye bye norton/mcaffe

[wizardofwindows]

Its true last month i was called to clean up a p4 the was running slower than the next windows os release .The culpit was are old friend norton.so i removed it and like post above avg7.1 spybot yada yada yada and it went faster than the patch releases from microshaft.lol.

[JRosenfeld]

Are the three files different from the three files Symantec offers?

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/share...p;pkb=tsgeninfo

MSIFIX.bat

SymNRT.exe

SYMMSICLEANUP.reg

[bonestonne]

theres an even easier way to delete norton than that, and i ran into it by accident.

get your norton CD [hopefully you have it] and put it in. select clean install, and let it go.

first off, it'll tell you it has to remove any previous versions installed, which is exactly what you want, no?

when it finishes removing NAV from your computer, it will ask you to reboot. simply take out the CD, reboot, and you're good. to finalize it, go into your computers Program Files folder. located at:

C:/Program Files [or something very close to that] and fine the Symantec folder. delete the folder [its already empty] and NAV is completely off your system. gone. not a single dot or square of its programming is left.

how about that, no downloading at all

[Jeremy]

theres an even easier way to delete norton than that, and i ran into it by accident.

get your norton CD [hopefully you have it] and put it in. select clean install, and let it go.

first off, it'll tell you it has to remove any previous versions installed, which is exactly what you want, no?

when it finishes removing NAV from your computer, it will ask you to reboot. simply take out the CD, reboot, and you're good. to finalize it, go into your computers Program Files folder. located at:

C:/Program Files [or something very close to that] and fine the Symantec folder. delete the folder [its already empty] and NAV is completely off your system. gone. not a single dot or square of its programming is left.

how about that, no downloading at all

Whatever works for you. NortonKiller gives the same result. Besides, killing Norton is a lot funner than pretend-installing it.

Edited August 27, 2006 by Jeremy