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Well, the first thing wrong with Norton is that it holds your computer hostage. Try uninstalling it and see what I mean. Oh, I should tell you that your computer won't work if you do, unless they changed it recently. Norton hooks into your operating system so that any disk operation points to Norton instead of the Windows disk read/write procedures. When you uninstall Norton, the pointers still point to Norton. Guess what happens when you try to start your computer?
The government forced Norton to post a true uninstall on their website. They aren't exactly trumpeting why it's needed or helping you to find it. Actually they do their best to make sure you can't find it unless you know what you're looking for and why, plus know how to do site searches. After all, they aren't trying to protect you, they're trying to force you to pay them every year.
Then like the car dealership who sends a junk mail ad disguised as an IRS refund, after tricking us into installing their junk for the protection of their "valuable customers" they ask us to trust them to sell us a car, or another year of Norton. Bye-bye Norton. You're otta here! Permanently. Your kind of service I will do without. My computer is mine and I will run it as I choose.
Either of the two free anti-virus programs, AVG or Avast! do as good a job and don't hold a gun to your head for ever increasing amounts of money every six months or a year. There are other free alternatives that are just as good.
Tonight I will be installing FOTRS to see what I have to do to defang Avast! I just want it to ignore that specific file and leave normal protection alone. I'm thinking there's an option to do that on first detection. Stay tuned...
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