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Installing Symantic Antivirus

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by pbaloyi

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I uninstalled Symantic 10 Antivirus, and when i wanted to install Symantec 9, i kept on receiving the following message, "InstallShield Wizard Completed- The wizard was interrupted before Nortan AtinVirus Corporate Edition could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete intsallation at another time, please run setup again. Click Finish to exit the wizard."
Please i need help, since several machines are now operating without antivirus.

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by older mycroft

Find another antivirus package and never use any Symantec/Norton utility package ever again.

They are notorious for identifying false positives and generally causing system crashes and failures.

Try AVG instead. It is far more reliable and what's more it is completely free.

You can get it from here : http://free.grisoft.com/

by sgt_shultz

my guess is that you didn't completely uninstall version 10. i wonder why you are downgrading. i wouldn't. maybe try this: reinstall 10. reboot. then uninstall 10 again thru add/remove programs all norton stuff: live update, live reg, norton antivirus. uninstall pcanywhere, norton utilities, anything symantec related. then search and delete all the *norton* and *symantec* folders on your pc.
my 2 cents are: symantec corp is a great product. however, many (most? all?) symantec products do not play nicely together. especially noticable when attempt uninstalling. All is revealed at the symantec website. also available there are instructions for more delicate repairs and removal tools.

by pbaloyi

Symantic 10 works well on P4 and earlier versions. With P3 the machines slow down especially with Windows 2000, such that users end up complaining on the performance of their machines, thats why i wanted to down grade to Symantic 9. All the machines which had version 9 had no problems, and those with 10 on XP platform, P4 or greater had no problems, actually they were performing excellent.
Is really symantic a nice product as you have just said, because some are recommending other antiviruses. I trust symantic, but now its giving me difficulties.
Anyway thanks for your cooperation.

by sgt_shultz

and they are quite snappy for their age, if i do say so myself.
so i don't get it. but if 9 fixes if for you, good to know..

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