# Norton Anti-Virus question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 22, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321 "2005-11-22T21:03:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321/1 "2005-11-22T21:03:24Z")
Okay, for some reason, when I turned on my computer just now, the little Norton Icon on the bottom tool bar is X-ed out, and I get a pop up message saying Norton Anti-Virus drivers won’t open auto protection. Restart. Okay, I did that, and it STILL does the same thing.
Soooo I open Norton up, and it SAYS Auto Protection is On. But the little icon is stil X-ed out. I haven’t downloaded any updates for a while (I know, I got lazy), and one of them is Symantec Common Driver: SymEvent. Could that be it?
Any idea? Because I cannot figure out WHY it would just do this all of a sudden.
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321/2 "2005-11-22T21:10:57Z")
Hey that’s weird, the same _exact_ thing happened to me this morning. The only thing I can think of is that it says my subscription renewal date has expired, but I dunno.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321/3 "2005-11-22T21:12:10Z")
Oh, and NOW twice the Live Update has “lost connection”, and I’ve had to start it again! What the HELL?
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321/4 "2005-11-22T21:15:37Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#):
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> Hey that’s weird, the same _exact_ thing happened to me this morning. The only thing I can think of is that it says my subscription renewal date has expired, but I dunno.
Well, that’s not the problem with mine, since I don’t have to renew until July.
This is ridiculous.
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321/5 "2005-11-22T21:17:44Z")
[Fuck Norton](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6667680#post6667680).
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321/6 "2005-11-22T21:29:43Z")
I’m trying to download just the driver there, hopefully that’ll fix the Auto Protection thing.
**Scott Plaid** , I’m not just going to scrap Norton and go with another program-dammit, I paid for this service, and I intend to see that I get it!
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321/7 "2005-11-22T23:51:21Z")
Did that work?
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-anti-virus-question/332321/8 "2005-11-23T05:26:02Z")
It finally got working-the updates installed, auto-protect is back on. Probably a glitch on their end.
If the mods want to close this, feel free!