help me kill Norten please.

[undeadgnome]

I'm trying to uninstall Norten so I can play world of warcraft game I got today but Norten takes 423 MB of RAM, and I am left with only a hundred something. When I try to uninstall it it says to turn off live update or let it finish. Help me please, the game is calling me....

[Kalos]

Grab your Window XP disk. Reformat and install a clean copy of XP. Never use the Norton spyware junk again. As far as I'm concerned it is a virus in it's own right, you can't get rid of it and you can't switch it off, it takes up resources, and it's not actually as good as some of the free virus scanners we have in the sticky threads here.

[Etrin]

2005 was the last of theirs I used. You had to go to the web site and dl 4 different programs on their site to be able to get rid of it. IT WAS AND IS TRASH.

What version and program are you trying to get rid of?

Kalos has the best idea if you can afford to loose all installed programs, if not check their site and try to find what you need to get it off...their uninstalls don't do it, but not sure if the newest software is differnt...my guess is NO.

also check broadband reports web site under security those guys are experts and a lot of co people post there...lots of them can help you with it.


ps undeadgnome what computer/memory are you running...get more...its dirt cheap right now I purchased 2 gigs of ddr2 ballistic for $64 dollars on sale yesterday.

let me know I will check and help all I can

[undeadgnome]

It finally came off after freezing my computer for two hours and I uninstalled that god forsaken program, thanks for the help though, Never ever use norten. Worse comes to worse we will take the 512 from our old computer to play the game.

[Kalos]

It finally came off after freezing my computer for two hours and I uninstalled that god forsaken program, thanks for the help though, Never ever use norten. Worse comes to worse we will take the 512 from our old computer to play the game.
Don't do that, whatever you do. Mixing any old ram with any old ram is a reciepe for disaster. It's a long speech I make regularly, so I'm going to cut it short this time. It most of the time screws up your computer. Save yourself some trouble, ram is 1/3 of the price it was two years ago, just buy a new 1 gig stick, no screwing around with the 'Pic N'Mix' kitbashed slap jobs. Ram isn't suppose to be thrown together from any old combination.

Ideally, it should be made in the same year at the very least, the manufacturing techniques they used then and now are completely different, world's apart. Force two different kinds together, both are throwing each other out of sync when they should be cooperating.

Either buy identicial sticks or don't bother at all. Simply throwing in any old ram "Because it makes the number higher!" doesn't work and had been the cause of more problems than solutions.

[undeadgnome]

They are from the same company though, could it ruin the computer because me being a teen I ran out of money buying 2-month card and game itself.

[Kalos]

They are from the same company though, could it ruin the computer because me being a teen I ran out of money buying 2-month card and game itself.
Same company isn't enough. They need to be the same frequency, same timings, same quality branding. If the Voltage requirements of one stick is different from the other in no way should you attempt a transplant. All of these things need accounting for else things will perform worse with the extra ram than it did without.

One stick could receive an overvolt so strong the stick overheats and melts in the extreme possibilities, and it can be done. Much more common are black screen restarts, instability, and failures when under pressure. Misaligned sticks are far worse than small quantities of ram, at least it functions as it is. Nobody wants a computer that performs like a drunken donkey, and mismatched ram slap-jobs done with guess work is a first class ticket to that reality. It has happened here before when people got obssessed with quantities of ram over quality, and wondered why they kept getting black screens and Error 132. Taking the additional ram out solved everything, more is not better.