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Just bought myself a brand new Windows Media Centre PC with some pre-installed software. Among this was a trial version of NIS/NAV - not my choice I'm glad to say.
Obvious thing to do was uninstall it, didn't want the free trial anyway. One small problem everywhere you go to try to uninstall it the only option is to use Windows Add/Remove programs - just one SMALL problem there was no entry for it!
A search on the internet found that someone had found a program called symNRT that removed it and I followed the link and downloaded it. Upon running it said it was made by Stmantec and had expired, visit their website for a new version. No mention, conveniently as they want people to use their AntiVirus software, on the site but a search showed a new version was being released that day.
Downloaded the software and lo and behold no more NAV/NIS what joy could now install my prefered software. Just need to get my windows updates downloaded and installed and we're away.
PROBLEM I could select the updates but the screen froze and wouldn't do a download, eventually times out with a non-descript Microsoft error.
Back to the search engine again and found: http://www.talkaboutsoftware.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/messages/156524.html
It appears that a lot of people had been down the same route and although symNRT removes NAV/NIS as it says there is an unadvertsied side effect that it screws up your registry so that you can no longer run Windows update.
Now my definition of a virus is a nasty piece of software that interferes with the normal operation of a PC - somehow this seems to fit the bill! Not only do Symantec cause/allow their AntiVirus software to be installed with no easy uninstall route as is provided by most other software manufacturers they also provide a tool to do the remove, when you can find it, that causes you more problems.
Obvious thing to do was uninstall it, didn't want the free trial anyway. One small problem everywhere you go to try to uninstall it the only option is to use Windows Add/Remove programs - just one SMALL problem there was no entry for it!
A search on the internet found that someone had found a program called symNRT that removed it and I followed the link and downloaded it. Upon running it said it was made by Stmantec and had expired, visit their website for a new version. No mention, conveniently as they want people to use their AntiVirus software, on the site but a search showed a new version was being released that day.
Downloaded the software and lo and behold no more NAV/NIS what joy could now install my prefered software. Just need to get my windows updates downloaded and installed and we're away.
PROBLEM I could select the updates but the screen froze and wouldn't do a download, eventually times out with a non-descript Microsoft error.
Back to the search engine again and found: http://www.talkaboutsoftware.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/messages/156524.html
It appears that a lot of people had been down the same route and although symNRT removes NAV/NIS as it says there is an unadvertsied side effect that it screws up your registry so that you can no longer run Windows update.
Now my definition of a virus is a nasty piece of software that interferes with the normal operation of a PC - somehow this seems to fit the bill! Not only do Symantec cause/allow their AntiVirus software to be installed with no easy uninstall route as is provided by most other software manufacturers they also provide a tool to do the remove, when you can find it, that causes you more problems.























