Symantec has been dominating the computer security market for years now; their most popular offering being Norton Antivirus which is often pre-installed on new brand-name computers. Unfortunately Norton products tend to install themselves deep down into the critical parts of your system and if the product becomes damaged in some way you have a big problem.

I have seen it many times on computer repair callouts. Someone tries to remove the Norton product (which is usually the antivirus program) and it appears to uninstall, but next time they reboot the computer Norton presents an error message saying Norton couldn’t start because its missing a critical component. Of course it cant start properly because they just uninstalled most of its components expecting everything to be removed which leaves you with a crippled copy of Norton which wont uninstall.

This is where the Norton Removal tool comes in handy.

It is a small, easy to use executable that removes Norton products completely and isnt limited to just Norton Antivirus either, it can remove their other popular programs such as:

  • Norton AntiSpam 2004, 2005
  • Norton Antivirus 2003 through 2007
  • Norton Ghost 2003, 9.0 and 10.0
  • Norton GoBack 3.1 through 4.2
  • Norton Internet Security 2003 through 2007
  • Norton Password Manager
  • Norton Personal Firewall 2003 through 2007
  • Norton System Works 2003 through 2006
  • Norton Confidential Online 2007

There are two versions of this tool available, an Vista/XP/2000 version and a ME/98 version.


Screenshot:
Norton Removal Tool

Downloads:
Download at Symantec.com - (772kb)