Comments on: The Sad Tragic Death of Norton Utilities

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:00:00 +0000

Avira requires much less system resources than Norton. It does a solid job. The free version, combined with a firewall and your smarts will do you well. Check out the tests at AV Comparatives.

By: Guido

Guido — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:13:00 +0000

Hey Kent,Probably you have some better antivirus by now?I am as impressed with NOD32 as we were both by the early Norton utilities.Check it out!best regards, Guido

By: TDAWG

TDAWG — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:02:00 +0000

Kent: I couldn’t agree with you more – thanks for your post! NPC is a nuisance (at best) and we were stunned to discover it AFTER we installed in on all 3 machines here… steve: I am so glad to have found these instructions – you rock!stophele: I will keep my eyes open for the DCOM errors… The lesser of 2 evils until I can jump to another program…

By: Stophele

Stophele — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:35:00 +0000

Once the dervice disabled, your event viewer fills up with DCOM errors though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:14:00 +0000

Thank you for posting how to disable the protection center. It is a bunch of crap that ruins computers and I’m glad to be rid of it. Why is every Norton so annoying these days?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:33:00 +0000

Kent,In my Quest for disabling the Norton Protection Center, I found this page. You may have been a bit hasty in uninstalling Norton Anti-Virus 2006. I did find a way, by searching the 'net, to disable the Norton Protection Center & leave the rest of Norton Anti-Virus 2006 fuctional. I found the answer here at DSLReports.comIf for some reason the link does not work, I will post the answer here as well. It is as follows:It can be disabled in "services".Start > Run > Type "services.msc"(w/o quotes) > Enter;Scroll down to Norton Protection Center Service and Disable it from there.I will add a bit more information to that answer, & it is this:Once Norton Protection Center is selected, right-click & choose properties. Click on the "Log On" tab. Select the "Hardware Profile" that you would like to disable it for. Click Disable, then Apply. In the main window of the Services, click on "Stop the Service".DONE!

By: RichardQuerin

RichardQuerin — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:48:00 +0000

Hi Kent,I've been using the free version of AVG antivirus with good results for a couple of years now. They seem to update their databases on a very regular basis. There are paid versions with more features, but the free version works fine for me. It seems to be a very 'single-purpose' and lightweight utility. Maybe more what you're looking for.