Norton 360 on vista ultimate 64 bit

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Norton 360 on vista ultimate 64 bit

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I was using norton 360 for several months with no dramas until the other day it started going hay-wire!! uninstalled it now i cannot reinstall it! installation keeps failing? i have contacted symantec tech support and they cant help me either??? they say i have a virus thats why i cannot install it but i dont have a virus iv formatted my pc and tried to install it and still it fails? im forced to use avg anti virus pro unless some1 can help me?
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I'm on Vista Ultimate 64-bit and can't find one I like either...
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WOW. I just installed Symantec Client Security yesterday and since then my PC is in a continuous reboot.
This morning I got an error "windows cannot find the "system32 directory" :roll:

This is also a fresh install............thankfully, as I'm just about to reinstall XP.

I think it's the Firewall that's doing it, as before this happened, Firefox would crash and the firewall would prompt me saying there was an attack.from IP 192.168.*.* :? How can I be attacked from my own LAN :?
My LAN consists of a Linux box, the XP rig and my Laptop (linux)
The XP rig wasn't even on the correct workgroup yet......

I have used Symantec AV before and no problems...........I wouldn't even touch a Norton product though (Norton = home users market | Symantec AV = Corp market)
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I am a user of NOD32 for a long time now and will go to Vista with it
take a look
http://www.eset.com/download/index.php
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got Norton 360 workin again

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ok it turns out that norton doesnt like you overclocking your pc to much :evil:

I lowered my overclock to 3Ghz and installed norton 360 and it worked :mrgreen:

when i tried to install norton 360 with it overclocked at 3.5Ghz it failed several times
also at 3.5GHZ my msn stopped singing me in automatically at start-up

now iv lowered my overclock to 3Ghz all is well :mrgreen:

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Post by Nobahar »

Norton is a virus. Go with NOD32 or Kaspersky.

EDIT: It isn't really a virus, but I just say it is since it massively hogs system resources and takes forever to scan and still misses important things.
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I have tried Kaspersky it stuffed up big time I won't touch it again :evil: , I have never heard of nod32 but im running vista 64 so unless they have nod64 I don't think it will work?

Yes its true previous norton anti-virus and internet security were completely crap and hogged resources, but Norton 360 works great :mrgreen: (no startup-or shut-down errors like prev versions of norton and not a resource hog)

I'm running norton 360 on my vista 64 machine and my other xp pro machine never had anyprobs (until i started overclocking @3.5Ghz thats when norton 360 began stuffing up @ 3.2 it works again) but that wasnt really norton's fault it was just an unstable overclock :mrgreen:
My System:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 3.33Ghz (1333fsb 333x10)
Thermaltake BigTyp 120vx CPU cooler
BFG Nforce 680i SLI (p31 bios)
4Gb ram DDR2-1067Mhz Corsair pc8500C5D + Dominator fan
Inno3d 2x 8800GTX SLI (169.12 driver)
2x 250gb HDD (raid 0) + 1 750gb hdd
Antec 1000w psu (with racing stripe) lol
thermaltake Armor full tower
Fusion Dual Digital 4 HDTV tuner
Acer 24" widescreen lcd 1920x1200
Logitech G15 keyboard, LX7 mouse and 5.1 surround speakers
Vista Ultimate 64bit
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