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Whoa! I fired up this Win XP machine today and up pops "Thank you for installing Norton PC checkup". I most certainly did not install this. I've purposely stayed away from Norton for the last 12 years. So I do an alt F4 and it says "Norton...will continue scanning..." with an OK button. This ain't OK. Any clues about what might be going on here?
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 04:52 PM
An update for something (like Adobe Flash) might have installed that. It's funny how this is - I treat anything I didn't ask for as malware, for the most part, and the Norton tool is anti-malware. lol...
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Posted 07 July 2012 - 04:59 PM
Usrn, on 07 July 2012 - 04:28 PM, said:
Whoa! I fired up this Win XP machine today and up pops "Thank you for installing Norton PC checkup". I most certainly did not install this. I've purposely stayed away from Norton for the last 12 years. So I do an alt F4 and it says "Norton...will continue scanning..." with an OK button. This ain't OK. Any clues about what might be going on here?
It was most likely inadvertantly installed. You can probably go to Add / Remove Program and uninstall it. I don't think you'll need to run Norton's removal tool for that.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 05:07 AM
Hey Usrn !
Actually, it is installed via the Shockwave Flash Player. It has a box with a check mark in it and IF you don't
Uncheck that box, it will download and install as part of that package. The Adobe Reader and Flash Player
(not the same as the Shockwave Player/for Director although, Adobe did by them out) will have the McAfee
scanner already check marked when you download from Adobe's site.
As for the Norton scan, I would recommend you uninstall then, run their uninstall tool. You can get the
tool from here : Norton/Symantec 2011 > Info > Tool (Note: Removes all Norton products).
Better safe than sorry.
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Actually, it is installed via the Shockwave Flash Player. It has a box with a check mark in it and IF you don't
Uncheck that box, it will download and install as part of that package. The Adobe Reader and Flash Player
(not the same as the Shockwave Player/for Director although, Adobe did by them out) will have the McAfee
scanner already check marked when you download from Adobe's site.
As for the Norton scan, I would recommend you uninstall then, run their uninstall tool. You can get the
tool from here : Norton/Symantec 2011 > Info > Tool (Note: Removes all Norton products).
Better safe than sorry.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 08:38 AM
I've run into that tool before and haven't needed any kind of removal tool for it. I don't think it's a real-time scanner, and so it shouldn't need as many hooks in the registry and all.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 10:36 AM
Norton = Devil Incarnate of utility software.
I installed it on my new build along with the motherboard drivers and utilities (Came on the Asus disk). Damn if the machine didn't run like a 486
Took a while to get rid of it all, but once I did I installed AVG = problem solved.
Norton is the first thing I uninstall on new machines now. Most people get along OK with it, but I didn't..... Still don't
I installed it on my new build along with the motherboard drivers and utilities (Came on the Asus disk). Damn if the machine didn't run like a 486
Took a while to get rid of it all, but once I did I installed AVG = problem solved.
Norton is the first thing I uninstall on new machines now. Most people get along OK with it, but I didn't..... Still don't
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 11:08 AM
LiveBrianD, on 08 July 2012 - 08:38 AM, said:
I've run into that tool before and haven't needed any kind of removal tool for it. I don't think it's a real-time scanner, and so it shouldn't need as many hooks in the registry and all.
Best to run it to be sure you have cleaned out all of Norton. That stuff is everywhere and using uninstall in Programs & Features ( Add / Remove Programs in XP ) will not get it all.
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