UAC prevents Norton installation

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Zoe

I have Vista Home Premium, and I'm trying to install Norton Internet Security
2009, which I downloaded from the website. The problem is that even when I
tell User Account Control to allow the install program to run, nothing
happens. I contacted Symantec about it, but all they said was that the user
control policy is not allowing the installation to run and that I should
contact Microsoft about how to fix it so the program can run. How do I do
that? Thanks.
 
Zoe said:
I have Vista Home Premium, and I'm trying to install Norton Internet
Security
2009, which I downloaded from the website. The problem is that even when I
tell User Account Control to allow the install program to run, nothing
happens. I contacted Symantec about it, but all they said was that the
user
control policy is not allowing the installation to run and that I should
contact Microsoft about how to fix it so the program can run. How do I do
that? Thanks.
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Have you tried right-clicking on the exe file and choosing "Run as
Administrator"?
 
I have Vista Home Premium, and I'm trying to install Norton Internet Security
2009, which I downloaded from the website. The problem is that even when I
tell User Account Control to allow the install program to run, nothing
happens. I contacted Symantec about it, but all they said was that the user
control policy is not allowing the installation to run and that I should
contact Microsoft about how to fix it so the program can run. How do I do
that? Thanks.
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Zoe - if you haven`t paid for it , don`t install it ; it will take
over your computer . ( Free programs are much better ) .
 
Jim said:
Zoe - if you haven`t paid for it , don`t install it ; it will take
over your computer . ( Free programs are much better ) .
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Heh, was about to say finally UAC does something useful :)
 
Is there free Anti-Virus Software?
Where?

James

Jim said:
Zoe - if you haven`t paid for it , don`t install it ; it will take
over your computer . ( Free programs are much better ) .
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Is there free Anti-Virus Software?
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There are several free anti-virus programs. The best of them, in my
view, is Avast, which you can get at http://www.avast.com/

But I completely disagree with the statement in this thread that said
"if you haven`t paid for it , don`t install it ; it will take over
your computer . ( Free programs are much better ) ." Although many of
the commercial anti-virus programs are very poor (Norton and McAfee,
for example), not all of them are. In my view, the best anti-virus
program is NOD32, which is *not* free.

Avast is a good product, and there aren't many that are better than
it. But NOD32 is.
 
Ken Blake said:
There are several free anti-virus programs. The best of them, in my
view, is Avast, which you can get at http://www.avast.com/

But I completely disagree with the statement in this thread that said
"if you haven`t paid for it , don`t install it ; it will take over
your computer . ( Free programs are much better ) ." Although many of
the commercial anti-virus programs are very poor (Norton and McAfee,
for example), not all of them are. In my view, the best anti-virus
program is NOD32, which is *not* free.

Avast is a good product, and there aren't many that are better than
it. But NOD32 is.
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Hi Ken

Did you see this. NOD32 is the lowest ranked??:
http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/

Why do you think that NOD32 is the best?.

/Jesper
 
One can choose whichever comparative test one prefers:
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02

NOD gets a decent rating there. If NOD protects Mr. Blake's system
adequately without hindering what he does with it, then it's the best
choice to him.


MowGreen
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*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
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I can remember about 5 years ago I had Norton Utilities. After
'uninstalling' (I use that term loosly)
it I thought I had done a processor upgrade. It was a very notable
improvement.

James
 
Since Peter Norton sold out to Symantec the "Norton" utilities have been
nothing but resource hogging snake oil.

Why would any reputable security provider need to supply a tool to
remove the crap their system leaves behind.

http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

I can remember about 5 years ago I had Norton Utilities. After
'uninstalling' (I use that term loosly)
it I thought I had done a processor upgrade. It was a very notable
improvement.

James
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