XP & Norton AntiVirus 2001/2002

[rh71]

There is a known issue where NAV 2002 will cause XP to use up all resources --> out of virtual memory. This is according to a few posts found on Symantec's site and I experienced it first hand as well. Now that I got rid of NAV2002 and reinstalled XP, I want to install NAV2001 and there was a compatibility update for XP that included something for NAV2001... installed that update thru WindowsUpdate and rebooted.

I run the setup for NAV2001 and it gives me this message:


<< Norton AntiVirus 2001 has a known compatibility issue with this version of Windows. The symevent.sys driver installed by this program is incompatible with this version of Windows.
For more information, contact Symantec. >>



I thought the compatibility update should have taken care of this?! It does give me a choice to continue, but I don't want to f__k it up like it was with NAV2002 installed. Does anyone know about this sorta thing? Thx.

 

[nippyjun]

You may want to try 2002 again. It may be fixed with the same windows update that you just got.

 

[rh71]

Yeah, well it's believed to be a Symantec code problem and not Microsoft's. I have gone ahead and continued the NAV2001 install and it finished, but indicated that it would cause XP to become unstable and auto-disabled it. THough it did lead me to a link on Symantec's site to a file dated back to June 2001... ran that file and it worked! NAV2001 is working fine for XP now... I may not touch NAV2002 again since all I need from it is virus warnings/protection.

Thx for your reply... with that compatibility update found in WindowsUpdate, it lists specifically which applications it "fixes" and NAV2001 is on there, but not NAV2002. Hence the more belief in the first statement I made here.

 

[PepperBreath]

My instructions on how to get NAV 2001 working are here:

XP & NAV 2001