[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I d have 3 months of licence left on my current (renewed annual) licence for >NIS 2005. My system tells me that my free 30 day free trial has expired >(which it did in Feb 2006). >There is apparently a known problem regarding a change they have made to >stop piracy. >I have run the 'fix' provided by Symantec to reactivate twice successfully >over the last week to get my version working again. However today NIS crashed >out and insisted I uninstalled and re-installed the product. Which I did and >now it won't 'Activate' whatever I do. >I understand that ringing the helpline doesn't help solve the problem as >there is supposedly a 'fix' >Anyone else have the problem?
I had a similar problem. First, I started being asked to activate the product every few weeks, even though it had been active for several months. Then, when I renewed recently, the activation page wouldn't accept the activation code Norton had sent me. I contacted Norton using its on-line text chat service (which is free through its web site). I was hand-held through a fix, which worked fine. This is a good service. "Neil Arlidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I dumped Norton ages ago, finding it an incredible system hog. I find this is a big problem. My computer becomes effectively unusable for about five minutes when an anti-virus update comes in from Norton. I can't even answer incoming Skype calls. I have now turned off Automatic Live Update, and instead trigger Live Update manually each day at a time when it will be of minimal nuisance. However, this is definitely a pain. However, even turning the thing off proved tricky, and required another text help session. Even now the turn-off is incomplete, as I have to do it again every time I reboot. Grrr. I thought about not renewing Norton when it expired recently, but I still believe it is the best product (i.e. probably has the best staffing and other resources for detecting and producing defences against threats), so I eventually decided to stick with it. I do find it more and more intrusive, but at present that is still within a cost I find acceptable for protection. Or am I just being naive? Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
