I purchased a boxed PC-Cillin Internet Security 2005 to replace Nortons System Works 2002 including NAV for my PC running XP Pro.
As I was installing PC-cillin it said it would remove Norton Antivirus for me. When I tried to finish the install it said NAV was still present. I uninstalled NAV from Add/Remove Programs and it disappeared from Currently Installed Programs list. But when I looked on my computer NAV was still all in the folder. I then uninstalled Norton SystemWorks via Add/Remove programs Probably not a wise move. However, NAV still was there in its folder.
So I went into the folder and manually deleted all the files from the computer.
I still couldn't install P-Cillin because it continued to detected NAV and wouldn't proceed with the install.
I now realise from reading many posts here that NAV has many embedded references throughout the Registry. Is there a registry cleaning method that doesn't involve manually going through looking for references to delete. I did try to do that in RegEdit but after 90 minutes I hadn't got far. Was it ok to use Find in RegEdit? I asked for "Nortons" and did delete them that way. Any other words I should have been searching for. It was pretty scary and I hadn't backed up the Registry. How should I do that?
Symantec no longer supports 2002 and said they couldn't help me. Would appreciate any advice or warnings.
Thanks.
WG
As I was installing PC-cillin it said it would remove Norton Antivirus for me. When I tried to finish the install it said NAV was still present. I uninstalled NAV from Add/Remove Programs and it disappeared from Currently Installed Programs list. But when I looked on my computer NAV was still all in the folder. I then uninstalled Norton SystemWorks via Add/Remove programs Probably not a wise move. However, NAV still was there in its folder.
So I went into the folder and manually deleted all the files from the computer.
I still couldn't install P-Cillin because it continued to detected NAV and wouldn't proceed with the install.
I now realise from reading many posts here that NAV has many embedded references throughout the Registry. Is there a registry cleaning method that doesn't involve manually going through looking for references to delete. I did try to do that in RegEdit but after 90 minutes I hadn't got far. Was it ok to use Find in RegEdit? I asked for "Nortons" and did delete them that way. Any other words I should have been searching for. It was pretty scary and I hadn't backed up the Registry. How should I do that?
Symantec no longer supports 2002 and said they couldn't help me. Would appreciate any advice or warnings.
Thanks.
WG