you should go ahead and use the dedicated McAfee removal tool, and or app remover, because McAfee is horrible about leaving lots of stuff behind, I had it at one time and went through a long removal process that I found on their forums, you can find a link to the removal tool here and also a link to a tool that can help you to remove it. Antivirus Product Removal Tools Using AppRemover AppRemover that will be your best bet for a full removal to determine if your windows firewall is on or not go to your control panel and the security area there you will find the firewall and can see if it is on or not. If you are running the firewall in the Norton suite then you should not have any other firewall turned on. If your Norton does not have a firewall then you would want to have the windows one turned on. after you do that let us know if you are still seeing the same thing happening. I do not use Norton so am not familiar on how to adjust the scanning schedule and properties maybe someone else knows.

my advice would be to fully remove all remnants of Norton from the pc and replace it with either the free AVAST or Microsoft Security Essential free. No reason to pay that kind of money and have that kind of hassle. to fully remove Norton using app remover does a good job Using AppRemover what version of windows are you running on that pc? you can use app remover to get rid of Norton then go to one of these and install one of these AV programs. Avast Free Antivirus I use AVAST and have for several years Microsoft Security Essentials depending on which version of windows you are using you can use the windows firewall if using vista or windows 7, if xp you can go with one of the free ones like zone alarm that gives you some options

"Posted by zep516 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 16, 11 at 23:42 In normal mode try to go to google. Tell me what browser you're using and the error you get. Here is a link that might be useful: google" In Normal mode, it can't connect to Internet, therefore it can't go to "Google" I have Windows Internet Explorer. When I click on it, the Explorer screen comes up and says "connecting", after a while it fails to connect and goes away. ravencajun, I will give that a try. Thanks. ---------------------- By the way, I have scannned with SuperAntispyware, Windows Defender, and Malwarebytes, nothing found, but Task Manger shows CPU activity goes from 0% to 65% use with no program running. dcarch

bbstx, I have been using the free version of iObit uninstaller on all my family's, friends and my own computers for the past 2 years now that everybody has changed to 64 bit systems. It has proved 100% safe and reliable and has what they call a "Powerful Scan" option that searches for all the hidden files and settings that Windows uninstaller leaves behind as troublesome orphans. It runs the manufacturer's uninstaller first and then runs "Powerful Scan". (Do not reboot when the manufacturers uninstaller finishes, let "Powerful Scan" complete first.) Most of my work with iObit has been removing unwanted programs on brand new Windows 7 computers and includes Norton, Adobe Reader, MS Office's trial, games and unwanted utilities. In my experience, as people eagerly boot up their new computers to see if they work, they cannot resist the invitation to check for updates before installing their preferred AV. For the user's safety, this automatically triggers the pre-loaded trial Antivirus program, and hence the need to use the AV manufacturer's specific removal tool. The same applies with MS Office trials. So far, iObit uninstaller has always proved 100% trouble free in completing the tasks even after the trial programs have been run. I always run CCleaner afterwards and it confirms that very few orphans are left behind - some of which would probably have been removed if I remembered to reboot before running CCleaner. I previously used Revo uninstaller when running 32 bit computers but Revo lost the plot when things switched to 64 bit. Initially Revo did not tell users that their program did not remove 64 bit orphans. That was the time when many long time users justifiably switched to iObit. Here is a link that might be useful: iObit Uninstaller from majorgeeks