Removing Norton 2008

[leevis]

I have Norton Anitvirus 2008 but it has just expired.
If I unistall it all ie remove it and reinstall it, would it give me another 12 months??
Dont really wanna buy 2009 if i dont have to.
Lee

 

[JohnD]

no because you will have to register it with the serial no

Norton knows the date your serial no was first registered.

however, a good ploy (after uninstalling it using the Norton Removal Tool) is to buy a new, unregistered but old stock copy on Ebay or similar, from a reputable dealer. For example buy 2008 or 2007 or even 2006 and install it, it will pick up a year's updates from the date you first register it.

 

[kjacko]

As an I.T. Manager i spend most of my days configuring software like this, especially laptops.

For home user pc's i'd recommend:

Avira or AVAST (both excellent and top the charts)
Malwarebytes (for malware detection/eradication)
Super antispyware (very good)

All are free with premium products you can pay to upgrade to.
Nortons IS a resource hog, misses loads, produces false positives and worth the money.
AVG has sucked a fat one since 2008 release
Kasperksy and BitDefender are also good.

I'm not worlds no.1 authority on this, buts its my job to secure our system and i test quite a lot of them. Avira won with Avast coming a close 2nd.
FWIW.

 

[JohnD]

As an IT manager I used to have chaps to do that sort of thing

 

[kjacko]

As an IT manager I used to have chaps to do that sort of thing

Lol, i forgot to mention, i'm the 'Manager' because i'm the only one in the I.T. dept.!

Ergo....i get to do all the crappy stuff!

 

[Softus]

As an IT manager I used to have chaps to do that sort of thing

 

[kjacko]

LMMFAO.....he got busted! .....Or right said Fred'd!