AOL vs Norton

[Lucky]

Having trouble accessing AOL while Norton Security is running. If I disable Norton, I can access it. This happened after I accepted a Norton update. AOL tells me the update is the cause of the
problem. Any suggestions as to how I can run Norton and still access AOL?.

[Q]

Having trouble accessing AOL while Norton Security is running. If I disable Norton, I can access it. This happened after I accepted a Norton update. AOL tells me the update is the cause of the
problem. Any suggestions as to how I can run Norton and still access AOL?.

To be completely honest.... format your system and then refrain from installing either of those wares. Seriously! AOL is the most sloppily coded crapware that has ever existed. You will never remove everything that AOL has done to your system.

Norton...it isn't as bad as people make it out to be, but isn't something you really need running on your system. If you are running any Norton products at all, I recommend that you leave it to Ghost and their AV client at most. You'll have far less problems in the future if you follow this advice.

The problem you are refering to is due to the last update Norton AV put out as it detected AOL as some sort of virus/malware. The NEWEST update is supposed to correct this, so you could try updating again. Your only other option is to uninstall the Norton product and reinstall it without updating. However, you'd likely put yourself at a security risk doing so.

My suggestion would be to find a better ISP and a better Norton alternative. For a firewall, Window's built in one is sufficient for most users. For Antivirus, Norton will suffice, but there is always AVG which is pretty good and free, too. Any of those little "Norton Utilities" have the habit of doing some unintended damage to your system at times, and like to run a lot of processes too.

Let me know if the updating thing works for you.

[seeker]

Qlitchford,

You may be right, but the last time that I had AOL, Fix-It appeared to clean it out properly. It took 1500 repairs of the registry though.

[Son Goku]

After someone did the disfavor of installing AO-Hell software on the computers in the networking lab one semester, I have a very dim view wrt their software. Why someone installed America Offline on em computers, when the college has it's own internal network with an OC-3 line to the outside world, I'll never know :eek:

All I'll say is em computers were fubar after that, and reinstalling the boxes so we could carry on with our own class work wasn't exactly something I walked in, looking to do :eek:

As to AV, I used to use Norton a long time ago, and then McCaffee for awhile. Currently I use Kaspersky, and if one is going to pay for their antivirus (as one does for Norton) I'd recommend going with either Kaspersky or NOD32...

[Lucky]

Thanks to all for your suggestions. I will have to try to get the latest Norton update to see if it corrects. Probably will have to install the free Juno or something in order to update becasue I can't do
Update while on AOL since Norton andAOL won't run together. Thanks again.

[j0j081]

AOL + Norton FTW!!!

[Q]

AOL + Norton FTW!!!

QFT :D

Son Goku...if someone managed to get past DeepFreeze in one of our labs and actually installed AOL on a system, that thing would see an image being pushed its way quicker than Gib with his pants down running after an afterschool first grade parade.

[Son Goku]

They can't really lock down the computers in the networking labs though. Mind you they have a bunch of classes in there from network operating systems, to Cisco 1-4, network troubleshooting, various Linux classes, and even network security where we do look at and mess around with various hacker tools...

Since it's inception, it was also removed from the university network and given it's own DSL connection, except N113, and that room is heavily firewalled, not to keep stuff out so much as to keep it in...

Given the nature of the class, all the students have to have administrative (in the Windows) and root (in the Linux) boxes. Some of the classes, though not all now have removable hard drives for each of the students/class which are stored up in a locker. Such wasn't always the case, as the removable HDDs are newer...

It'd be hard for people to take networking, and learn networking if they froze an image on all the computers and didn't allow the administrators in training to muck around a bit... By the very nature, we also have class labs on the routers and switches (more in N115 then in the other 2 rooms), which is largely considered a tear down lab, with it being unknown from one moment to the next whether it gets out to the Internet... These aren't the same as the typical computer labs there for all students, but are there for a lab environment/classroom for those majoring in networking.

It used to be that classes and people stepped over each other's toes, and did create probs such as that one (networking student?) who put AO-Hell on all the fricken PCs. Why someone learning about networking woudl go using that there, I don't know. It's probably also why they started assigning removable HDDs to each student in a given class and semester... We also had the practical portion of our exams off em boxes (mostly in N115, with n113 being a room gaurenteed to always be up) as well. Anyhow, typical n00b user from off the street isn't supposed to be in the networking lab/classrooms mucking around with the systems students are doing their assignments, labs, and what not on...