{"id":234,"date":"2005-05-30T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:44","slug":"norton_removal_tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/05\/30\/norton_removal_tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Norton Removal Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Someone I know was having problems with their computer, and they ended up having a copy of their registry being restored and so they had to reinstall a bunch of things. But they couldn&#8217;t get Norton Antivirus 2005 installed. I tried everything I could. I removed registry entries, I deleted the folders that were there, I rebooted dozens of times, but everytime I went to install it, the process would fail. As I did a search on the Symantec web site, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/service1.symantec.com\/SUPPORT\/tsgeninfo.nsf\/docid\/2005033108162039?Open&amp;src=&amp;docid=2004093015165236&amp;nsf=tsgeninfo.nsf&amp;view=docid&amp;dtype=&amp;prod=&amp;ver=&amp;osv=&amp;osv_lvl=\">document 2005033108162039<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Symantec has a program that removes the programs listed at the beginning of this document from your computer when Windows Add\/Remove programs does not work. This program is called SymNRT. SymNRT works with Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Do not use SymNRT unless Windows Add\/Remove programs cannot uninstall your supported program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The removal tool works with the following programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Norton AntiVirus 2004, 2004 Professional, 2005, 2005 3 user<\/li>\n<li>Norton Internet Security 2004, 2004 Professional, and 2005<\/li>\n<li>Norton Internet Security Anti-Spyware Edition 2005<\/li>\n<li>Norton SystemWorks 2004 and 2005<\/li>\n<li>Norton AntiSpam 2004 and 2005<\/li>\n<li>Norton Personal Firewall 2004 and 2005<\/li>\n<li>Norton Ghost 2003 and 9.0<\/li>\n<li>Norton Password Manager 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I used the tool, rebooted, and then when I tried to reinstall the software it worked perfectly. Obviously there was something left over somewhere that was causing the process to fail. It&#8217;s a handy tool that you can download directly from the <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.symantec.com\/public\/english_us_canada\/linked_files\/tsgen\/SymNRT.exe\">Symantec FTP site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone I know was having problems with their computer, and they ended up having a copy of their registry being restored and so they had to reinstall a bunch of things. But they couldn&#8217;t get Norton Antivirus 2005 installed. I tried everything I could. I removed registry entries, I deleted the folders that were there, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-software-tips","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}