Virus, WinXP and NAV 2002

WinXP and NAV 2002

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Ziad Khour #1 / 2	WinXP and NAV 2002 I'm running WinXp with SP1 and Norton Anti Virus 2002 (purchased as part of Norton Internet Security 2002). Below is a description of the problems I've had which lasted quite a while before I was able to revert to normal, but I've summarised them to stop you falling asleep... Things got pretty messy when I used LiveUpdate to download and install Virus Definitions 2002 (on 31 Dec '02). When I restarted (to complete the installation) and got a blue screen. So I rebooted - the same thing happened. I suspected NAV had something to do with it. I couldnt start windows, not even in safe mode. Not knowing what to do, I reinstalled WinXP (without formatting) and hoping that this would at least give me a chance to start in safe mode. But alas, no luck. On the bright side, the error messages I kept getting pointed to a file called NavEx15.sys - it had to be NAV... So I started WinXp with DOS/command prompt and managed to find and rename the file. WinXP started fine and was stable. I uninstalled NIS with NAV, and thinking that the problem must have been caused by a corrupt something or other, I reinstalled WinXp once again (without formatting). That went fine, so I reinstalled NIS with NAV and ran LiveUpdate. I was back to square one. I then ran through the entire process once more, this time without re-installing NAV (only NIS) and my PC is now stable. Only thing is I am only using NIS, but I cannot run LiveUpdate despite following all related instructions from Symantec. Clearly something is wrong with NIS/NAV and my XP installation. I heard that there was a worm or virus around that did something to anti virus programs. Thinking that my PC was infected, I downloaded the fixing tool from symantec and ran it. My PC was clean!!! I have tirelessly searched MS and Symantec's knowledge bases to find out the cause of the problem and its resolution with no success whatsoever. Has anyone been having these types of problems with Norton (both NAV and NIS 2002)? Can anyone please please PLEASE assist. Many thanks Z
Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:08:25 GMT

John #2 / 2	WinXP and NAV 2002 Greetings I am running Norton AV 2002 as well as Internet Security on XP Pro machine with no problems at all. Updates work well and cause no problems. I do not know what the difference is between our setups that is causing your problems, as I too have SP1 installed . The file you mentioned as error NavEx15.sys is indeed a virus definiton file that is also in my system. Have you tried running a online virus scan from a service such as Trend Micro http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Quote: > I'm running WinXp with SP1 and Norton Anti Virus 2002 > (purchased as part of Norton Internet Security 2002). > Below is a description of the problems I've had which > lasted quite a while before I was able to revert to > normal, but I've summarised them to stop you falling > asleep... > Things got pretty messy when I used LiveUpdate to download > and install Virus Definitions 2002 (on 31 Dec '02). When > I restarted (to complete the installation) and got a blue > screen. So I rebooted - the same thing happened. > I suspected NAV had something to do with it. I couldn’t > start windows, not even in safe mode. Not knowing what to > do, I reinstalled WinXP (without formatting) and hoping > that this would at least give me a chance to start in safe > mode. But alas, no luck. On the bright side, the error > messages I kept getting pointed to a file called > NavEx15.sys - it had to be NAV... > So I started WinXp with DOS/command prompt and managed to > find and rename the file. WinXP started fine and was > stable. I uninstalled NIS with NAV, and thinking that the > problem must have been caused by a corrupt something or > other, I reinstalled WinXp once again (without > formatting). That went fine, so I reinstalled NIS with > NAV and ran LiveUpdate. I was back to square one. I then > ran through the entire process once more, this time > without re-installing NAV (only NIS) and my PC is now > stable. Only thing is I am only using NIS, but I cannot > run LiveUpdate despite following all related instructions > from Symantec…. Clearly something is wrong with NIS/NAV > and my XP installation. > I heard that there was a worm or virus around that did > something to anti virus programs. Thinking that my PC was > infected, I downloaded the fixing tool from symantec and > ran it. My PC was clean!!! > I have tirelessly searched MS and Symantec's knowledge > bases to find out the cause of the problem and its > resolution with no success whatsoever. Has anyone been > having these types of problems with Norton (both NAV and > NIS 2002)? Can anyone please please PLEASE assist. > Many thanks > Z
Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:02:22 GMT

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