My personal experience with Norton Antivirus has been mostly positive. However, each successive version seems to incorporate more functionality but it gets slower and slower. Although I wrote an article on how to speed up the windows boot process, one of the best ways always is to uninstall Norton and install a free antivirus product. I've also experienced situations where internet access is completely shut down and many times uninstalling all of the Norton Antivirus or firewall products on the computer fixes this issue. Follow the instructions below to safely remove Norton and Symantec security products including their antivirus and firewall from your computer Removal through the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel In many cases, you can simply remove Norton products through the Add/Remove Control Panel. 1) Click on Start, Click on Control Panel 2) Double-click on Add or Remove Programs 3) Find the Symantec or Norton product listed and click on it. It should look similar to the following  4) Click on Remove 5) You'll see a screen similar to the one below. Click the Remove All button to start the removal process.  6) Once the removal process completes, you'll be asked to restart the computer. Go ahead and reboot at that time. 7) After rebooting Norton should be removed from your system. If for some reason, the normal uninstall does not remove it, I recommend following the automatic uninstall instructions below to remove any leftover Symantec or Norton security products. Removing Norton Automatically Norton has created an automatic removal program to remove the following software products when the normal removal methods fail. Warning: if you use ACT! or WinFAX, back up those databases and uninstall those products as well. The removal tool will remove the following software products from your computer.
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