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Title: How To Completely Remove Norton Or McAfee From Your Computer
Post by: Wayout on November 17, 2010, 01:12:07 PM
How To Completely Remove Norton Or McAfee From Your Computer

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I used the McAfee remove program and it seemed to work.
Title: Re: How To Completely Remove Norton Or McAfee From Your Computer
Post by: lobo3 on November 17, 2010, 03:16:37 PM
When you really want to do a deep clean removal of all traces of a program, use "CCleaner". It gets all the "crap" out and is safe to use. I've been using it for around three years now and it is ok on Win 7 also. Go to Download.Com and just type "CCleaner" in the search bar and read the info, oh, and it's free........ :aok
Title: Re: How To Completely Remove Norton Or McAfee From Your Computer
Post by: SIK1 on November 17, 2010, 03:19:33 PM
The most effective way I found to remove Norton from a system was too reformat. That was several years ago. I haven't used Norton since.
Title: Re: How To Completely Remove Norton Or McAfee From Your Computer
Post by: ACE on November 17, 2010, 03:24:21 PM
I have norton on my cp.  Whats so bad about it.  The only thing i've noticed is it does scans a lot.
Title: Re: How To Completely Remove Norton Or McAfee From Your Computer
Post by: Reschke on November 17, 2010, 04:22:02 PM
Run nonav and it will remove any traces of that Norton crap that is on your system. I also found that using common sense will prevent an infection of Norton or McAfee in the first place.
Title: Re: How To Completely Remove Norton Or McAfee From Your Computer
Post by: Tigger29 on November 17, 2010, 06:58:44 PM
Quote from: ACE on November 17, 2010, 03:24:21 PM
I have norton on my cp.  Whats so bad about it.  The only thing i've noticed is it does scans a lot.

You can configure how often it does scans.

The problem with norton is that it is very resource hungry, and not even close to the most effective AV program out there anymore.  Years ago, it was great but today it is more bloatware than anything.