Norton Anti Virus and OS X boot up problem

Try to turn it off and see it thats the issue.

 

Does she have admin priviliges? Can she delete Norton without them knowing? Norton has a habit of installing itself all over the place, and as I'm sure you know, is totally unecessary on OS X. It sounds like a Norton problem. I just cleaned a friend's pc from a buggy norton install.

 

AHHH! Norton! The Mac version of Norton is crap. Try ClamXav if an A/V is truly necessary.

 

Norton Antivirus is crap no matter which version it is. It can slow the fastest of computers down.

If it gets corrupt, uninstaller on Windows will not remove it or the registry entries and you have either search for that neat little application that destroys Norton's registry entries in one go or manually edit the Windows registry.

A lot of organizations use Sophos.

 

Yep, Norton anything can cause machines to go belly up causing all sorts of problems with operation.

Heck if their drive tools are also loaded, that can actually corrupt the drive.

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Use a company that shows more respect for OS X.

 

I had VPN put on my Gateway computer a few months ago from work, they also put in XP sp2. It slowed down my computer so much that I really hated to get on it. I tried to put Linux on my system but it didn't work and I couldn't get it off. So I brought my computer back in so they could work on it for me, and they did, still worked slow but a little bit faster. The zone alarm and the vpn slowed it down. I took off Zone alarm and it worked so much better.

Is she using it for work related projects? or is it just for personal use? If it is for personal use, she can take it off no problem.

I only have to use the zone alarm for when I use my computer for work (which is about once every month and a half if that). The XP sp2 has a firewall in it so I wasn't worried about taking off the firewall from Zone alarm.

Actually what I am trying to say is that if it is her own computer she should be able to take off the Norton's with out any problem. If the IT dept. has a cow tell them to get a life but that it was messing up her computer.

 

Better yet delete it from your computer. Its worthless. I work in a IT office at a chemical plant and we don't have any anti-virus stuff on our macs. Only on the windows computers. Go tell your IT guys that norton is slowing down your computer and you would rather take a risk than wait 30 minutes everyday.