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How to completely uninstall Symantec products
Authored by: TigerKR on Aug 22, '05 08:01:45PM

I am responsible for this hint. I must not have been logged in at the time of submission.

The Norton Utilities were great through Mac OS 9 for all of the computers I administered. I used them on dozens of computers and they kept the computers working with no downtime.

Now Norton Utilities is discontinued, and Mac OS X appears to be much more responsible regarding its filesystem.

I guess if I need a suite to replace what Norton Utilities did, I think I would look into Drive Genius:

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius_info.php

Drive Genius just got a very favorable review and recommendation over on macfixit:

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050710234551683

And no, Disk Warrior does not do everything that Norton Utilities did. It may be the best at what it does (directory repair and optimization), but it is still a one-trick pony, and not an Utilities suite.



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Unable to download "uninstall Symantec products"
Authored by: Biorichard on Aug 29, '05 05:29:56AM

I too am unable to download the file. Is there an alternate URL?
Or - to second the request - please can you post the file?

My problems are:
Ever since I updated to 10.3.9
I get upon startup following error messages:
Unable to load Norton Privacy Control extension
Norton Personal Firewall error (Kernel extension not launched)
Norton AntiVirus Error.

Updating to 10.4.2 changed nothing here.

At this stage I would simply like to uninstall, but the uninstaller provided by Norton with the software returns an error and does not do anything.

Thanks for any help or information.
Richard



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Unable to download "uninstall Symantec products"
Authored by: TigerKR on Aug 29, '05 09:11:46AM
Link

Alt Link

Scroll 2/3 down the page and the file download link is there. I was able to re-download it from that link, so hopefully, you should too.



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still unable to download "uninstall Symantec products"
Authored by: Biorichard on Aug 29, '05 12:25:00PM

sorry - I do not know what I am doing wrong
when I try to download I get the error message:
550 /misc/consumer/mac/NortonUninstall.sit: Not a directory

please help
Richard



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still unable to download "uninstall Symantec products"
Authored by: TigerKR on Aug 29, '05 08:44:02PM

Are you running firewall software? Try turning it off temporarily.

What program are you using to download the file? Try Transmit:

http://www.panic.com/transmit/

and then paste this link into transmit:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/misc/consumer/mac/NortonUninstall.sit

Good luck.



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thanks - tip worked for me
Authored by: Biorichard on Aug 30, '05 09:05:05AM

I guess my (Norton) firewall posed the problem - after turning it off I was able to download the file.
And, the uninstall worked!

Thank you for your help!

Richard



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