How to use norton antivirus on multiple computers

Hi, Thanks for the great topic. Masis Visitor 2. Stu Guru Norton Fighter At first I uninstall all unnecassery prgrams. Than I delete all left folders and reg keys. Also I have a regular look at my start up program to be sure nothing is in the way. Urrell Contributor 4. Vejdin wrote: Here are the steps I follow to speed up a PC: 1. Urrell wrote: Masis wrote: Simple When I do the refresh I also run update to get latest fixes etc and then ghost the machine again The rebuild seems to be the only way to remove all the bloat and restore the system to a well running 'puter Mark.

Message Edited by kangarooke on AM. Where is Norton? Hi, Why tuneup my PC? Try to have up to date drivers, servicepacks and hotfixes for all software. I don't need membooster, registrycleaner, tune-up utilities and antiwindowsphonehometools.

My Ps's running and running and running and running and they don't loos their performance. Life is like an adventure- stupid story but fantastic graphics. Earlier we flew to the moon with a Commodore 64 Computer Forgot to mention earlier I noticed that only very few are actually required.

PaulS Contributor 4. Two things I do first: remove unwanted software and startup items start disabling or setting unneeded services Windows and 3rd party to manual. Defragmentation I follow also above mentioned steps StekertJ Regular Contributor 5.

That's a great advise! Donna wrote: That's a great advise! This is always advisable. That way you have better control as well. Virus scan 2. Run a disk cleanup, delete as much as I can 4. Disable Hibernation if it is enabled takes up about 3 GBs of space on my computer 5.

Restart into safe mode 6. Defrag I use JKDefrag, not the windows, as vista's is lacking I use safe mode to defrag because it runs faster, and more areas of the disk are open for filling. Thanx for your ideas saladbar. Here we go my tips: 1. Try it out!!! Reg: Jul For others computers: "1. Defragmentation" 7. Determine hardware vs software installed, upgrade if appropriate. Explain the merits of installing software on a second hdd or partition.

For myself: 1. Turning off Special Offer Notifications seemed to help, but now the Service Notifications are piling on. Does anyone have a suggestion for an alternate spam filter that will work with a non-standard email program? I still use the obsolete Forte Agent because it has 25 years of my emails.

If you review this Forum's documented history for this issue, you will find that it has been discussed for over 5 years , and all of the older threads end with the following:. Even short term fixes, such as my earlier one, fail to stop ALL the various unwanted messages.

They are constantly trying to grab your attention, whether it is:. Norton, et al, has no intention of stopping this practice. The record shows they have done it for years. What they want you to do is feel you need and recognize them, so much so that you will autorenew and pay them more than what they receive from their distributers.

Norton Lifelock, in its present state, is no longer a company that innovates much. They have nothing in common with Peter Norton's company that they purchased in , beyond the rights to use his name. He didn't even have an antivirus product when purchased.

And this is the company that wants you to trust your internet security to by selling you, in essence, a Lifelock insurance policy. Not that I will ever experience this, but can you imagine what it would take to submit a claim on that policy, much less a monetary reward?

We can't even get popups removed! Read the Security Concerns and Controversies in the above cited Wikipedia article. The company has a history of product failures, scareware tactics, and mistrust issues.

More than should be considered acceptable for a company who is dependent on having integrity to accomplish their business model. Absolutely a brilliant summary of the situation. It's so well stated and so important that I feel you should try and have it published elsewhere, perhaps a technology blog that allows users to contribute op-eds articles or letters. More people need to be warned about how terrible this company has become. In my case, I run Thunderbird in the background almost continuously.

So that is my entry at step 4. So as long as I have Thunderbird is running, Norton leaves me alone. A decent explanation of how this works is available if your click on the "? Norton's explanation states that all Norton background tasks will be placed on hold while your selected program is running, but I have found that that statement is not entirely true.

Antivirus protection is NOT disabled. You can do the same for running scans. Task manager events are not affected by Norton's Silent Mode Settings.

Special Offer Notifications switch off is supposed to turn of marketing popups. There are several different kinds of popups which can be grouped because they share common features. Category 1 are essential and the functional purpose of NAV. They include notifications such as:. The solution I have proposed is for Category 3 notifications.

The others are not relevant to this thread as it now stands. Norton is working in the background while your computer is idle" when it is not.

Also, the "new products' ads. If I can't get help, why should I pay to have 6 hours of work destroyed by a Norton notification? Froederick: The solution I have proposed is for Category 3 notifications. I thought OP was asking about Category 2. I thought users are annoyed by Category 2.

I think it's pretty clear, at least from my attachments, that users such as me are annoyed by what Froederick has defined as "Category 3". These are non-stop spam messages with information often neither helpful nor relevant, and are frankly scare tactics aimed and trying to upsell existing customers on additional products.

There is no way to stop them. Even if you click "No Thanks", the message will spawn again in the near future. Here are two more that came in just the past few days alone. Note that these are just after the two other ones I posted just about a week ago. By Norton's definition, anything that the user initiates over a network is a "remote connection". There seems to be no end in sight to this BS, apart from the expiration of my subscription. Widowmaker , Froederick , et al Thanks for helping me categorize Norton popups.

Before you look much deeper, restart your computer and keep trying the LiveUpdate. Sometimes that is all that is required to get balky updates to complete. When you look at the classic browser in your Norton product, what browser is shown as the default? Try changing it to another browser on your system and test. There is no reason that a paying customer should have to go through these efforts to stop Norton's spam notifications.

The only valid solution is for Norton to stop, but it's clear that they will not. In fact, in recent years they've added the "Additional Apps and Services" to the "My Norton" dashboard and populated it with an increasing number of services.

This is now the culture at Norton and the very reason I'm leaving once my subscription runs out, after 25 years of being a loyal customer.

I posted to the same concern and now its based on the reports. See my image-how is this possible to get reports I did not want? Report card if off but does not matter. Been with Norton since , it really is time to leave and I truly was behind them all the way and a very hard move to make for Perhaps they need people to click outside of the actual app at some point more often..

This is not good. I moved from AVG eight months ago after a few years of use as I got sick of the occational advert from them. I have just unsubscribed from Norton as I truely beleive this is the only solution to the nightmare which is Norton. It's a complete joke. One PC I use for live music and had to de install since this behavior interupted a performance, I was so angry with Norton and their idiot marketing department.

I have tried all the suggested fixes to no avail. Norton won;t be happy until they have ONE user left who have a full subscription to everything they do. What a terrible company. Can anyone suggest a spam filter to replace the one in Norton?

That's the only reason I'm reluctant to toss it. It traps 4 to 10 spam emails a day for me. I use an obsolete email program and don't want to switch, so I need a filter not built into other software. Here's some interesting observations of the Norton pop-up behavior. These annoying pop-up notifications are not necessarily sent from Norton, but are actually built into the software and present based on a schedule. Here's the proof. Note these two images, which are the same notification that pop-up 1 day apart.

The first time we had a network outage, and I was not connected to the internet. Therefore, the notification must reside in the software. Two days later , I received the exact same pop-up again, then again today You can look at my long history of posts to see I've dismissed this notification over and over, only for it to return, whether I'm connected to the internet or not. Back to top. JamesH54 Visitor 2.

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The downloader will initialize and download the rest of the files required for the application to be installed. We'll help you make the choice with our dedicated guide to Norton's antivirus plans. Norton will then install; the process takes a little while, so you can wait and watch that spinning circle, or perhaps go and make a cup of your preferred beverage!

Norton LiveUpdate will check for updates, likely finding one, which it will then download.