Up to date Malware Removal

[Mercutio]

It sounds like you did a Windows Reset. If the default installation image on your PC had Norton-whatever in it, you'll get it back when you do a reset as well.

 

[ddrueding]

One of the things in the Startup Repair toolset is rolling back changes to the PC. I wonder if it rolled back far enough to restore Norton? Either way, killing it is the right move. Uninstalling should be enough to prevent it from running, which matters more than every file and registry entry.

 

[Santilli]

It sounds like you did a Windows Reset. If the default installation image on your PC had Norton-whatever in it, you'll get it back when you do a reset as well.

I didn't do anything but restart the computer. I didn't hit anything, or do any input. Found this very strange. I did do the uninstall, and deleted about 50 Norton Registry entries. That I did do..

 

[Mercutio]

Fun true story: The same company, Gen Digital, owns Norton, AVG, Avira and Avast. It also owns Piriform, which makes Ccleaner. They're all now equally worthless.

Anyway, there's an official Norton Removal Tool that should be used instead of manually deleting registry entries. Failing that, definitely look at something like Revo Uninstaller instead.

 

[Santilli]

In true Norton form, after running it, and restarting, a popup screen shows up asking if I want to reinstall norton

 

[Mercutio]

That is expected behavior. The tool exists to support a borked Norton install because the full set of manual removal instructions is multiple printed pages long.