Hi again, I couldn't decide to make this one or two posts. Sorry, up front, if I did this wrong.
For the last couple of times when I ran spybot it said "Your microsoft AV and firewall are disabled - and asked if I want to fix this." Yeah, I know they are disabled - I have Norton.
When I was installing the 06 Norton it asked me to uninstall Spybot. I did because Spybot never found anything for me - I am sooo conservative in surfing. Also, while I was removing/installing Microsoft AV/firewall kept popping up every minute to install itself.
I was not connected to the net.
Is WWIII starting between these 3 companies?
They used to play nice together.
My question? Don't really know. It's just weird.

Not sure whats happening here
Go to www.ccleaner or www.easycleaner.com
download and install the software and you want to run a tempfile,cookie and History file clearance
Mean the programs are running on a clean slate and you will have to log into everywhere
As regards Firewalls let the MS a/v through plus Norton and see what happens

There are a lot of Free Tools appearing recently which Take a lot of the workload off other programs, such as Microsoft Defender,AOL Active Security Monitor(new this week) Also Older programs Like Spywareblaster and AdAwareSE and Avast! (A/V)
Most veteran Webusers have at least one of these Grinding away tirelessly to Prop up the Defences

There is a "bug" in the combination of MS Windows and Symantec. The Windows Firewall doesn't "see" the Symantec, so it keeps popping up the notice of the lack of Anti-Virus / Firewall protection.

The correction has been made and if you both manually update your Symantec AntiVirus program and your Windows, the problem will be corrected. To manually update the program, open the Norton product and then run the Live Update. It should find a number of program updates and when installed should correct this problem. For security reasons, these program updates will not update automatically.

Be sure to also update your Windows (Internet Explorer/Tools/Windows Update). Again, this must be done manually.

As for the Spybots, I would suggest you reinstall it and continue to run the software. Some of the latest spyware is very difficult to remove. I suggest you use the "immunize" portion of the Spybots to help prevent these "bad" infections.

In addition, I highly recommend "SpywareBlaster" as a prevention tool. You can download the free tool here. And while we're on the subject, another very useful tool is a modified "hosts" file. You can read about and download this free utility here.

I know this seems like a lot, but believe me when I say that preventing problems is much easier than trying to repair the damage after the fact. I have recently spent as many as 10 - 15 hours getting infected computer systems running again (while preserving the data files). See an example here.


Dwight