Tool to Completely Remove Norton Products From Your Computer

I just found that Symantec has an automated tool that, supposedly, will completely remove all Norton products installed as well as any leftover shrapnel from using Norton's uninstall.

So I though I would share the link to the tool:

http://service1.symantec.com/suppor.../2005033108162039?Open&docid=2004030411260104

I am running it now...anything to get all of Norton's leftovers outta here...

 

I just finished running the Norton Removal Tool and it seemed to go fine. I have no idea if it removed everything or not but I did search the registry and found no remaining references to either Norton, NAV, NIS or Symantec. So it did something because I had registry entries for Symantec before running the tool.

A note if you have an HP, or any other system with integrated security tools, after running the tool I had an error from the HP ProtectTools. On system start as well as when opening the ProtectTools control center it returned a "Catastrophic Error" message. I did a repair install using the updated ProtectTools software from HP's site and the error was corrected. So maybe some system's security tools also have hooks for Norton stuff or there is a shared library that was removed. Either way a repair/re-install took care of that on my HP...

Weeeeee, no more Norton on my system...weeeeeeee!

 

ya i have used that quite a few times because, well, like you i dislliked norton, so i wanted to get rid of all norton things on my system. good find

 

Norton slows down the comp doesnt it?>

 

Yeah, I would guess that Norton rewrites something in the Windows common/shared files. Removing the file would cause corruption in an adjoined application. This is probably why the regular uninstaller leaves some stuff behind.