# Norton Antivirus!  Leave me alone!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-antivirus-leave-me-alone/147020>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 6, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-antivirus-leave-me-alone/147020 "2003-01-06T21:21:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-antivirus-leave-me-alone/147020/21 "2003-01-10T13:08:52Z")

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Back to the OP for just a second …  
Symantec lost any chance of acquiring me as a customer by their non-stop “Buy Norton AntiVirus” spamming. In what THEY claim is the wildest coincidence, the spam started 12 hours after installing their “free 90-day trial” that could only be activated by registering at their site.

So I registered, and very carefully made sure that all of the little check boxes said, “I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT GOOD DEALS FROM YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS!”

:wally :wally :wally

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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-antivirus-leave-me-alone/147020/22 "2003-01-10T13:41:52Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Crown Prince of Irony \*  
> **whatever we may think of Microsoft, they don’t get pirated much since XP came out.**

HA!

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**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norton-antivirus-leave-me-alone/147020/23 "2003-01-10T17:01:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Cheesesteak \*  
> \*\*Mine comes up on my work PC every monday at noon, and slows the thing to a crawl for about 45min, and there’s no way to turn it off! Well, at least, I can’t find a way to turn it off. One time I seem to have hit a combination that made it go away, but discovering it again is like finding the freekin’ holy grail. \*\*

I downloaded a trial version of 2003 last week and found the scheduler. Open A-V from the taskbar icon, click ‘scan for viruses’. On the bottom under ‘schedule task’, click’schedule’. From there you can change the time and frequency of scans, ‘advanced’ to change the day of the week. I may just crack open my wallet for this one-it removed a pesky worm that none of the free worm-stompers on Tucows could find.

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