vista and norton 360

[RabbieBurns]

got a vista laptop here with norton 360 on it. It connects to the wireless and reports it can access local and internet, indeed i can ping yahoo.com and access ftp servers via cli

however i cannot access any web pages with either ffox of iexplore. Im sure its something to do with the norton crap, but whenever I disable those services, i get a general hardware error when trying to connect to network devices.

whats going on!?

[RabbieBurns]

norton has been wiped and it works fine now.

I hate pre-installed crap on laptops.

[tech_guy]

N360 can be an absolute pile of poo sometimes. I've lost count of the number of laptops that I've come across that are running so slowly with it installed.

[contink]

Norton is now on my list of "malware: uninstall immediately" when anyone contacts me about problems with their machine.

It does nothing that Avast or AVG can't handle with 1/3rd of the resources.