I’m a fairly content AT&T DSL subscriber. I’ve also been a loyal AVG Antivirus user since my last nightmare with Norton Antivirus 2004. It turned out to be a chipset incompatibility with my model of Dell Dimension 4100 that caused the never-ending cycle of BSODs.
Old news.
I came downstairs to the computer the other morning to find an AVG ad on my screen. Grrrr. Any program installed on my machine that throws ads up on the screen is gonna to get uninstalled.
My co-workers kept raving about the Symantec AV that comes free with AT&T DSL. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I thought I would give it a spin.
Stupid move.
I should have stopped when it required that I use IE instead of Firefox. I had to set IE to my default browser. The agony.
An hour and a half later, I’m beating my head against the brick wall of crap software that is Symantec Antivirus. Here’s the lovely error message:
Problem is: There wasn’t a previous install or uninstall to be completed. I did everything they told me. I clicked here to resolve. It didn’t. I uninstalled AVG, Windows Defender, disabled my Windows Firewall, manually deleted my Temp files, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Four restarts later, I’m ranting right here.
Check out these moves:
Check, check, check and check. Uninstall. Yes, I’m sure.
Downloading the Norton Removal Tool. Check.
Running…
Ahhhh…Freedom.
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What were you thinking?
Ha… sounds like fun. I don’t trust anything from Norton or Symantic either. I couldn’t be happier with using Avast. And I won’t touch Firefox after all the bad cookies that would show up on Spybot, so I use Opera and love it.