So you’ve made the decision to move to a better Antivirus program, good for you. But Norton had one dying wish, to make it hard to say goodbye, the uninstall does not fully remove the program. Symantec offers an uninstaller for NAV (Norton Antivirus) 5.0/2000/2001/2002/2003 which they claim removes Norton from your Program Files and the Registry, but commentary on various discussion boards and blogs suggests otherwise. What you must do follows.

• 1. Go to Start –> Control Panel –> Add/Remove Programs.
• 2. Scroll down to your Norton program
• 3. Click Change –> Remove All.

You will be asked to restart your PC. Do so.

• 4. Now go to Start –> My Computer –> Program Files. Right click on each Symantec folder and select Delete.
• 5. While you are in Program Files go to the Common Files folder at or near the top of the Program Files window. Delete every Symantec folder there. And, again, restart your PC.
• 6. Go to Start –> Search –> All Files and Folders –> More Advanced Options. Check each option except for “Case sensitive”

Now type in Norton and delete each Norton folder from the search results (Again, right click, choose “Delete”). One more time, restart your PC.

• 7. Repeat step 5 except type Symantec in the “Search” box.

• 1. First thing to do is Back up the Registry.
• 2. Once again, go to Start, then click on “Run”. Type in “regedit”
• 3. Go to the top of the Regedit window. Click (+) next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Go down the thread until you see Software. Click on Software and scroll down the thread until you see Symantec. Right click on Symantec and choose “Delete”.
• 4. From there go down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and repeat step 3. Restart your PC.
• 5. Click (+) next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, now: Click (+) next to Software, Click (+) next to Microsoft, Click (+) next to Windows and Click (+) next to CurrentVersion.
• 6. Select the Run folder. Right-click and delete each Symantec entry you see (if present). Restart your PC.

That should remove Norton Antivirus from your system! Now go install AVG