[prawleprovi]

Hi,

I thought I would share this with you. I have a wireless router a desktop pc and a laptop with Vista Home Premium on. I recently updated my anti virus software to Norton 360. It was okay for a couple of days and then the laptop could no longer get internet access through the router. The wireless software didn't show the laptop and I was completely stuffed. I had to remove Norton 360 and even then it didn't work! I then found two bits of software from Norton Backup Settings Dump and Norton_Removal_Tool. After using these I was finally able to get connected again.

I have now purchased AVG Internet Security and everything is fine. This was a costly problem and I know that some of you will probably tell me here was a better way of solving this, but I'm not very PC literate and therefore this way suited me (albeit expensive) better.

I just thought I would share this in case anyone else had similar problems.

Tim

[SocialWarfare]

You did the right thing
Norton is crap

[philthomas]

Yep ... as Social said, you have done the right thing. IMO Norton is bloatware at its worst and unnecessarily complicated to configure. It's not very good at detection either.
It hogs system resources and runs umpteen modules all the time, slowing down all but the fastest of systems. Any security package will have an overhead, but Norton's is the worst by far.

Dont feel bad ...... many many folk have trodden the same route as you and learnt from experience.
I really do wonder sometimes how Norton survives ..... I guess folk just get a warm feeling inside and feel confident purchasing a product with the Symantec tag ... oh and the box is a pretty yellow colour