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I've had a similar issue with Symantec Products...[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#2)
by Anonymous User on Mon Sep 08, 2003 at 09:26:40 AM PDT

However, rather than posting whiney rants about Symantec (not that they would be undeserved - it should be possible to install any product through "Add/Remove Programs"), I checked the knowledgebase on their website and found manual removal instructions...

Don't get me wrong - I used to be a big fan of Symantec back in the good old Norton Utilities days, but lately they've really started to suck rhino ass.

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by jsjohnson1 on Wed Sep 24, 2003 at 07:43:03 PM PDT

Great, I buy an upgrade for norton internet and the system tells me that it can't remove components of the earlier norton install automatically. They have me run a few diagnostic programs and guess what, my new norton upgrade is worthless because norton can't remove all the components of its own previous installation. Nice job!
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Really useless software, in fact, these days[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#5)
by Jace on Fri Oct 31, 2003 at 01:20:26 AM PDT

Remember the days when Norton Utilities was a life saver and could recover data from all kinds of disk screwups? These days, with the protectedness of the OS, Norton Utilities does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to restore, recover or fix disk problems. I don't know if there's a "boot from the CD" mode, but where I work, our students get no help from the Help Desk when they have bad disks unless the Win98 laptop is available. Everyone else runs W2K or XP and the disk tools built in or on Norton are 100% TOTALLY USELESS.
-Jace
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