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I think you should consider if you really need Norton. General consensus around here is that it is at best nondescript and at worst damaging to your system.

By the way what was the fix? May always help someone else to know how you solved something.

If you are not running Windows on your Mac, ClamXAv is the preferred Mac app for that. It will not slow down your machine, or bork your hard drive. IMHO. A friend of mine had Norton AV on his Mac, and after 3 years and two zero-out erasing of the HD, guess what was the only thing still on there? Norton.

~Bee wrote:

If you are not running Windows on your Mac....

Ribblev does not appear to be using a Mac at all. Still there is always ClamWin.

You seem determined to run Norton but as I mentioned earlier, it's not too well regarded for Macs.

Suggest you read ...Uninstalling Norton AntiVirus | Macworld

And the box marked similar articles on the same page.

You might find this of more help.

seventy one wrote:

You seem determined to run Norton but as I mentioned earlier, it's not too well regarded for Macs.

Again, the OP is not using a Mac...

Suggest you read ...Uninstalling Norton AntiVirus | Macworld

And the box marked similar articles on the same page.

So how is this going to help him?

When the OP is not using a Mac, I agree, it may not help. But there's nothing to say that in his profile, though there is a mention of HP in the initial post.

Because of your specialist knowledge area (thinking back to another post) what would you say about Norton and Macs?

seventy one wrote:

Because of your specialist knowledge area (thinking back to another post) what would you say about Norton and Macs?

I need to preface my remarks to explain why I have not spoken up on this subject here before.

I was an early adopter of Norton Anti-Virus when Peter Norton owned it. It, along with the even better Norton Utilities saved my bacon more than once when running Apple's Classic OS. At the time I would have recommended it to most any Mac user. Then Symantec bought Peter out and things went rapidly down hill. The last chance I gave them to get it back on track was SystemWorks 2.0 and Internet Security 1.0 back in the OS 9 era. Despite a number of bug fix releases, I had to disable most of it and then remove it entirely. That's the last time I actually ran a Norton product on any of my Macs.

So I have no current experience with either NAV or the new iAntiVirus at this point and can't speak with authority on their worth. So feel free to ignore anything else I may have to say here.

I guess my bottom line would be that I think it has an undeserved bad reputation based on user experience from many years ago. I don't remember the last time I read a first person account of individual user issues in modern times. You chose your words carefully, which is appropriate, but I'll bet there are a lot of "experts" here who condemn it without ever having recent hands on experience.

There are a lot of reasons for their reputation, most well deserved. It's been said that Symantec never invented a single piece of software (not sure that's true any more, either), but rather purchased the works of others to either kill the competition or enhance their bottom line. They were a very different company in those days, with a different management style, etc.

So I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be at least as good as whatever has the best reputation among Commercial Mac A-V vendors today. They seem to be on top of most all the OS X malware, even though they don't spend a lot of time blogging about it. I know a lot of IT professionals who swear by their enterprise level software. I suspect that their software no longer behaves any worse than the others that operate at the kernel extension level (always dangerous for third parties). But their reputation seems to be their unending albatross.

Greetings Madmacs0,

What a thoughtful and constructive reply to what some may well have seen as a throwaway question. Thank you for extending me such courtesy.

It is just this quality of response that makes Apple Forums an invaluable tool for Mac owners to both participate in and learn from.

seventy one --

I agree.

That was a fabulous post by MacMacs. So genteel and calm.

Personally, I would never use Norton, based on my experience years ago, and several friends more recently.

But that is just my opinion,

This thread was confusing, because most of us assumed he was using a Mac. But we missed one important part of the post:

Usual computer is HP DV6, Windows 7, 64 bit, with Norton 360 installed.

Yikes! I hate it when that happens!

All the best to everyone!

Nice to hear from you again, ~Bee,

Re the HP reference, I did mention that in a later post as grounds to justify Norton more generally. I could not have anticipated such a brilliant respose. 😎