 Re: Don't Buy Norton Antivirus 2004 Yet!
Heh! <Chuckle!>
I shouldn't laugh really, because this product caused me nowt but hassle and yet more hassle.
Let me explain; back in 2004 I built a dual P3 Asus based rig as a server for the local youth club's website, which I set up and paid for out of my own pocket.
With two 933 MHz CPU's, 2Gb of PC133 RAM and four hard drives totalling half a terabyte it was quite some machine, easily capable of running a website, so I decided to use half it's capacity as a fileserver.
Because this PC represented quite an investment for me, I decided to go out and buy the best AV system (as I thought) and wound up paying just over forty quid for Norton Anivirus 2004 from Dixons.
On trying to install this programme suite on top of Windows 2000 I was immediately faced with a failure to copy files properly, which according to the help manual dictated an uninstall before another attempt could be made to install it.
Five goes at uninstalling it later, I tried again, this time getting the error message that 'windows could not find the file ***^&)))*) and will now shut down'.
I did a complete scan of the registry to find that the said file did not now exist, so fearing that the OS was now compromised I did an sfc /scannow, the log of which showed that no fewer than 118 Windows system files were either missing or unreadable.
The registry also still showed references to 'Symantec', so I deleted those and rebooted.
Right, so three hours later I was back to square one, still with no AV on the system and getting thirstier by the minute.
The following session went quite well by comparison, and it did eventually install - well, up to the configuration console part of it anyway; looking at the insructions was like trying to decipher ancient Celtic and no help at all, so I opted for the 'typical installation of features' and let it get on with it.
All done; fine, let's get cracking loading up some webpages and reorganising the site - except that IE will not let me into the Host URL - why?
The only way I could get ont any of my 'normal' sites was by deliberately, and with some effort disabling Norton altogether, which sort of defeated the object of putting it on there in the first place!
After a day or so of this, and, incidentally finding that several of my 'trusted' applications no longer worked properly, I decided to call time on NAV and uninstall it permanently.
Into the tray with the CD, click on 'uninstall' and away with the mixer - easy, ennit?
Nah, you have to be having a laff; the thing wouldn't do anything, apart from throw error messages all over the screen that I didn't have a hope of clearing - there were simply too many of them.
Having resisted the almost uncontrollable urge to throw the entire shooting match on the floor (the Lian Li case was worth over £150) I set to and reformatted the thing, losing over 16Gb of stored material and a perfectly good Linux installation to boot.
So yes, you could say that I had a few problems with 2004, and I will never, ever, let Nortons anivirus within thirty feet of any of my computers, ever again!
JB.  | 
Re: Don't Buy Norton Antivirus 2004 Yet! 
Apart from that I've not run into any problems with it.
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