Hi,

Msconfig & Services: in principle, a good idea :wink:

However:

  • NORTON AV seriously messes up the PC and often makes it impossible for other AVs to run without crashes if any traces of it are left.
  • avast AV-Shield will check if NortonAV-Services are present in the registry and disable itself then (hopefully, otherwise your PC might crash).
    Avast checking on startup if the Norton-AV-service is running would be pointless, as NAV could start later and then crash (the Services Load order is pretty random in Win)
    Vlk could elucidate this…
    :slight_smile:

Don’t you have the installation CD/files & registration #/key of Norton ?

it’d be best if you completely remove any traces of Norton/Symantec (at LEAST of Norton-AV) from disk & registry, if you want to install avast

:wink: