So my Norton AV ‘scription expired on the laptop and the prog was pestering me to renew. In fact, it almost auto-renewed. If anybody has installed a Symantec product, watch out because it defaults on “auto-renew”, not so good especially if you bought the prog online with a credit card which they’d have on file. I caught it on the day it was scheduled to auto-renew and managed to log in and “opt out”; plus, the credit card they had on file was expired. I was going to install different stuff a couple weeks ago, but the retinal tear set me back, especially after the laser surgery and the doc said “no reading for at least a week!” So today I got to it, after I mowed the yard and did a little cleaning in the garage.<\/p>\n
The uninstall of Norton Internet Security was pretty easy. Just went to Symantec site, downloaded uninstaller, and ran it. No problemo, except it wouldn’t run until I uninstalled my PIM prog, ACT. Don’t know what that was all about. I had to search clear back to some old zip disks to find my ACT installation program to re-install it. It’s a 2000 version.<\/p>\n
I was going to install Sygate Personal Firewall, based on research I did a couple years ago. But, come to find out Sygate got bought out by….. yes, Symantec. And of course Symantec discontinued the “free” version of Sygate. There were still Sygate downloads out there, but I decided to look around again. I ended up with Comodo<\/a>, which is free. It installed real damn fast, as in no time, really. No more than a split second after I clicked “install” the “successfully installed” window popped up. I thought there must have been a mistake, but it really is installed.<\/p>\n