tommyf wrote:
Thanks for this very useful info. All I can say, and we are very computer savy, when I disabled all of Norton's components, the install breezed through as it did my Mac. I did agree with the gentleman who posted only because of how dominating Norton can be. Anyway, strange stuff sometimes happens in this environment at times. I have always professed that the answer is there in my computer. Sometimes, it just takes awhile to figure it out.
When installing software, vendors often suggest temporarily deactivating antivirus or internet security packages, regardless of which package it is. Sometimes it is necessary depending on the software being installed, the system resources it needs for updating, the configuration of the system software, the firewall, the version and installation options of the security package being used and a host of other issues. There is a lot of complexity to all this. Sometimes various software packages don't play nice together. I have no stake in Symantec, and some past versions had performance issues in some configurations, but I just get frustrated when people bash Norton products out of hand. The current version, Norton Internet Security 2013 is as good as anything else out there, but people still remember a bad experience they may have had 5 or 6 years ago and assume the brand is tainted for all time on all computers. I'm the first one to bash crap software since development is what I do for a living. End of rant. :-)