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Somethings wrong with my computer....

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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
please read guys, i need your help.

so my Acer is acting weird... its running XP with sp2
so im good with computers and ive tweaked it here and there. yesterday, my norton antivirus would pop up when i tried to open firefox, and it saidlike, antivirus cant use the repair function.... so i clicke dok and i had to reinstall firefox. then all yesterday, every 15 minutes a Scanner Module pop up would come up from norton.... so i was a bit confused. i was gonna uninstall it, but i had no time. so i woke up this morning, and i clciked on my zune software on my taskbar, and it said, unable to locate path, so i browsed, and found it, but it still didnt work. then i noticed the majority of my programs are those little windows, instead of their icon. i went to add or remove programs and i clicked remove norton, and it said it was already uninstalled. it said this for almsot everything.

the only programs that are working for me now are firefox, msn and winamp. obvisouly theres more but this is fucked. can someone pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee help!!?
Jul 15 2008 10:04AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
Posts: 3018 - Karma: 8
Its your Antivirus softwere taking over your computer,Mine did that too.
Jul 15 2008 10:05AM
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Peter.
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uninstall norton and install avg
Jul 15 2008 10:56AM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
when i try to uninstall it, it says its already unistalled. when i try to install it, it says to delete the old version. shitssssss fucked
Jul 15 2008 11:42PM
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.BaconatoR
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i'm not good with computers, but would doing a system restore help?
Jul 15 2008 11:44PM
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comeatmebro
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^possibly

maybe try starting your computer in safe mode, and see if that will let you uninstall norton.

for the record, norton is so shitty. it is "antivirus software" and it is basically one big virus ready to completely fuck your computer.
Jul 15 2008 11:48PM
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uni-corn
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True story.

Maybe try a system restore to a few days ago when it was still working correctly and then promptly uninstall Norton and put on AVG.

And he is all about System Restore if you don't know.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_restore
Jul 16 2008 12:12AM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
i know norton sucks. im getting a new laptop right before school starts either way.

so let me gget this straight, i do a system restore, set it back to lets say 6 days ago.... then my computer will have everything it had then/


Jul 16 2008 2:04PM
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skinnylove
Posts: 6807 - Karma: 167
Maybe you have a virus that is fucking with you.
Jul 16 2008 2:12PM
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4frnt_or_die
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i never had norton on my computers (have avg) but a month ago norton pops up from nowhere and tells my computer is infected and blablabla and in fact its norton thats fucking everything
Jul 16 2008 2:42PM
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dave44
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Norton is a bitch.

fuck it
Jul 16 2008 2:47PM
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2+2=5
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yeah norton is one of the worst scanners, its overprotective. i'd get kaspersky or avg
Jul 16 2008 2:50PM
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GhostfaceKillah
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you may have a virus that is making norton act shady, try an online virus scanner to see if your system is clean

i suggest trend micro housecall


Jul 16 2008 3:13PM
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chapz
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fuck. i tried to do a system restore. it has like only 3 possible days. none of them work. i do it, then reboot and it says no changes were made, this restore point wont work. and then i click the arrow to go to june, and it will only stay in july.
WTF
Jul 16 2008 10:31PM
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MCIRONCOCK
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Norton works fine for me
Jul 16 2008 10:40PM
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comeatmebro
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boot up in safe mode!
Jul 16 2008 10:41PM
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ben802
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buy a mac!
Jul 16 2008 11:20PM
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chapz
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i cant even open norton. it says the integrator wont start, then nothing happens.
Jul 16 2008 11:47PM
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KarmaSkiier
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too much porn. plain and simple
Jul 17 2008 12:25AM
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caucasian_chad
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I don't use an antivirus.  I don't feel it's worth wasting my RAM, it causes shit like this to happen, and I've never got a virus, I check the processes on my computer manually every once in a while.  Antiviruses are almost as bad as viruses in some ways.
Jul 17 2008 1:27AM
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EthanJPAskier
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idk whats wrong, but it seems like the only thing to do now is save anything important to a disk or removable hard drive, and then do a reinstalll of xp, and everything else.
Jul 17 2008 11:06AM
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