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Originally Posted by FIREWALL
The only way to get rid of NORTON completely is to reformat.
Or throw your computer out the window. 
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Actually, that's not quite true. In the bad old days, when I eradicated the Beast, you could manually unhook Norton from Windows by editing the registry, removing each line that hijacked the read/write routines and referenced the Norton routines, which NO LONGER EXISTED if you uninstalled. You had to make the registry changes and then uninstall Norton. Was a permanent fix.
Then Norton was taken to court and required to make available a free "Norton removal tool" on their site. Of course they try to keep it as hidden as possible and probably move it around a lot so people can't link to it, but Google knows all and a search for "Norton removal tool" is all it probably takes.
Slimey corporate behavior sucks! Norton is off my list forever as a possible software supplier. They could do whatever they like in the future but my death penalty stands. No more Norton anything on any of my machines.