| Carl Frisk 2005-01-31, 12:21 pm |
| This is John's issue not mine. But I'm sure he appreciates the advice. However this doesn't sound like an AV problem
at this point. It does sound like a spybot or virus or firewall problem.
John,
Have you run Ad-Aware and Spybot? Have you checked Norton's logfiles? XP SP2?
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"Paul R" <rudmans@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message news:nvnLd.13364$mo2.1046147@news.xtra.co.nz...[vbcol=seagreen]
> its been my experience, in these type of cases, that it will be your
> AVS(anti-virus-software), now in the case of Nortons v Internet sounds very
> much to me that nortons is "blocking your use of the internet", now heres a
> thought, are you running another firewall as well as XP's own one??, that
> can do the same thing... getting back to what i was saying about nortons----
> check it over very carefully look at each setting that you can, and just see
> if there might be something tucked away in there...
>
> the other thing to consider, goto www.grisoft.com and download the free
> version of AVG, write it to a CD then transfer it to your laptop, run the
> setup, but skip the updates for now, then UNinstall nortons(beware it leaves
> a hell of a lot behind) reboot, and try again.... AVG is the best performing
> AVS that is free, and equals/surpasses nortons, and the bonus is that it
> uses a fraction of your PC's resouces that nortons does....
>
> hope this helps in some way
>
> cheers Paul
> "Carl Frisk" <c.frisk@REMOVE.verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:IVlLd.1375$0O4.310@trnddc03...
> files. Have you tried to do a system restore?
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