Uninstalling Norton Antivirus

Getting Nortons Antivirus off of your pc can be just as difficult as getting rid of some viruses. When using the add/remove programs you may sometimes receive an error that wants you to buy or upgrade Norton. The first step I take to resolve this is to go into the system configuration and stop Norton from running on startup, then restart the pc. Next, I go back into the add/remove programs and try removing all of the Norton components from there. Once that is finished I restart the pc again and look through the program filed for any remains of Norton Antivirus ( I can usually find something that didn't go away) The last trick that I use is right off of Nortons web site, it's called the Norton removal tool. By downloading and running this utility all instances of Norton should be removed. After the restart your pc should have the green light to operate without any version of Norton on the system. I immediately install the next instance of virus protection that I want to use.