I have a compaq presario v2000, with 512 mb of ram and a 1.8 ghz AMD sempron processor, with microsoft xp home edition. I had installed norton antivirus 2002 nearly a year ago from a CD my dad had, and it was fine, until I ram a free virus scan on the internet and found out that I had 5 viruses on my computer. I then installed avast antivirus, and it installed OK, but I had not uninstalled norton beforehand. I then read that I had to uninstall norton first, so I uninstalled norton, deleted all of it's program files, ran the norton removal tool, and edited my registry so it is clean of files with the name "norton" in them. I restarted my computer after doing all of that. I looked all over the internet on ways to remove norton, and I tried all of them. Then, assuming norton was removed from my system, I installed avast again. I ran a boot-time scan, but then when my computer was nearly finished booting, avast gave me a message telling me that norton antivirus was still running
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1 Smart oen // Jun 24, 2008
oh god no no no no no no avast is so annoying it pops up in the corner of your computer with updates it wants to install every ten mintues or so and it randomly restarts your computer if you don't tell it not to fast enough and it's just the most annoying thing you could possibly do to your computer.
2 curious21 // Jun 24, 2008
i dont know if this will work for you also, but when i ran into this scenerio i un-installed avast, restarted the computer, then did a search for any remaining norton files which i deleted, then restarted the computer, and re-installed avast and lastly restarted the computer. Hope this works for you also
3 shinelove8702 // Jun 24, 2008
Typically Norton has installed several other programs. From your description, it appears that you missed the major key term:
Symantec.
Uninstall any symantec software, especially LiveUpdate.
Avast is good, but what I've done in similar circumstances is to install AVG antivirus, and then uninstall any others, as it can run on top of others. http://free.grisoft.com
Good luck!
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