Norton 360 auto-protect playing up

For some reason on Norton 360 it says auto protect is off, and when I click 'Tasks & Settings' then 'Change Advanced Settings' then 'Virus And Spyware Protection Settings' then I check the box marked Enable Auto-Protect then click apply and restart the computer its still not enabled, the box doesn't even stay ticked when I exit the Virus And Spyware Protection Settings box. Can anyone please help?

Edit, I'm beginning to think this might be because of malware, because no sound will play and My computer failed to boot and I had to use startup repair.

The best thing to do with Norton is uninstall it.

The free AVs are better and FREE.

Aw crap, I paid £50 (around $100) for that. Oh well...

You may be able to get that back if you only just bought it.

Try saying it doesn't run of your PC or your PC is too slow spec to run it.

Be sure to use the Norton Removal Tool to uninstall it, otherwise it will not uninstall fully and will interfere with your new AV Software.

Rob follow these steps:
http://www.computer-juice.com/forums...-posting-7476/

Sorted me out, now I'm more protected then I've ever been, and that includes the times I've payed for McAfee/Norton

Do you have the latest version 2 or version 1? If you have version 1 contact them via tech support and say you want to be upgraded. That's what I did and didn't cost a penny! Far better than version 1!

Both versions are worth steering clear of to be honest Tom, free or not.

I have to disagree, Dave. I have used Norton for years now (since about 2002), and have never had any problem with it. I don't find it system hungry or anything. Does the job, stops and spots nasties and symantec support, for me, has always been great.

Each to there own tom, All i can say is i paid for Norton and Mcafee since 2003 up until 2007, and il never go back to paying for bloated software with a pretty theme, I personally found Norton slowed me down along with pretty much every other Norton user i know, Mcafee on the other hand was actually pretty good, did keep me protected for a year or two but only protected me in one area, as the free programs I've used for almost a year has and is currently protecting me in all areas, this has been double checked by online scanners and friends who I've personally asked to send me a few "nasties", but as I've said each to his own, as long as you've tried both Norton and the free protection that Evil fantasys thread offers you and is not saying Norton is better because you've paid for it.

I have indeed tried freeware as well. I have AVG on an older laptop, as well as avg antispyware on here, and I have superantispyware on both machines.

Admitedly the older versions of norton where slow, but Norton 360 and 2008 are so much faster!

Not according to the very respected friends of mine who use it but i can't argue with your opinion now can i as i don't use it myself.

Like I said, It's just my opinion and experiences. Although maybe their systems are less powerful?

I have it running on four computers.

1) Custom Intel Q6600, 2GB 800MHZ PC6400 DDR2 RAM, Nvidia 512MB 8600GTS PCI-E Graphics Card

2) Dell Inspiron Notebook 1.4GHZ Celeron M, 512MB DDR PC2700 (I think It's 2700) RAM and 64MB onboard graphics.

3) Dell Dimension 2350 2.4GHZ Pentium 4, 1GB DDR RAM (1x PC2700 and 1x PC2500 (Something like that) and 64MB onboard graphics.

4) Dell Dimension 2400 2.5GHZ Celeron, 768MB PC2700 DDR RAM and 64MB onboard graphics.

Norton is bloatware though and sooner or llater it will kill your machine.
The number of processes runing at once, in Norton is ridiculous.
Certainly the bloatware, that hogs all the resources, will be less apparent in newer higher spec machines, but it's still there.

If you like it, then stay with it, but you are one of the very few folk that I have come across, that actually praise it. As for me, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, unless I didn't like them

I totally agree with Phil and no disrespect to you tom but i have a 1 friend in particular who's specs kill pretty much all your comps combined no joke hes been using/ building comps for more years then i care to remember and he said he'l never use 360 again. But for the rest there specs are pretty much the same as yours.