Pc-cilin over norton av

[jagnorm]

Can PC-Cilin be installed in addition to or over Norton AV?
The reason I ask is because A friend of mine got a virus on his computer, he tried to load Nortons system works but can't because a previous version is still on it. He can't seem to uninstall previous version. Will pc-cilin install over what ever he has.
(I have not seen the computer yet, just know what he told me)

[Xeroid]

I don't know why not. Which OS? I've run into a simular problem upgrading Norton AV. Download a program called regcleaner. Run it and remove any keys left by Nortons uninstall. Then the new version should go right on.

http://www.pcmedixwebs.com/regclean.htm

[jagnorm]

He started out with 98 and another friend of mine installed the upgrade to 2nd edition (with the virus still pressent, what ever the virus is) I downloaded the regclean program, I'll give it to him or probably wind up installing and running it for him.
Thaks Xeroid

[jagnorm]

Ps. OOops on spelling pc-cillin

[jagnorm]

I just read on another thread that pc-cillin might eat up resorces, any body know about this possible problem?

[JohnE.]

PC-cillin uses less resources than Norton AV... I've used both and much prefer PC-cillin. I've had both installed at the same time to compare features, ease of use, etc. No real problems but startups were a ram killer.

Norton AV is a resource hog and it's almost impossible to disable for gaming, installing apps, drivers, etc that require AV to be disabled. You can completely shut down PC-cillin by exiting the startup app and end-tasking on two running services... they won't complain or start up again a minute later behind your back like Norton does. Also, I've never had PC-cillin start downloading a virus pattern update while I was playing Diablo II like Norton did one time. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why I dropped to a continual 2 FPS until I alt-tabbed and saw an update in progress, lol.

[Uncle Bob]

I found that Pc-cillin is easyer to set up and deal with than Macafee or Norton. The one thing about Pc-cillin is it messes up my E-Mail settings. I E-Mailed Tech-support still no answer. Pc-cillin
was also very hard to uninstall.

[jagnorm]

Thanks for the input everyone.

[Trouble]

Have you ever tried AVG? Even less of a resource hog,Free and does the job adequately.

[burningrave101]

I would definately reccomend picking up AVG, its the best FREE anti-virus program.