Abreeze, I see you 'found' the On Topic Discussion side of the forum and posted the info there, as well as mentioning that you thought your post had disappeared. Here is a link that might be useful: Your new Saturday post.

I've noticed that some people tend to have recurring problems - they run out of gas, they overspend on their credit cards, they have problems with kids, they have traffic accidents or ticket problems, etc, . It's not that some people have all of these problems, but rather some people seem to be prone to having recurring problems of one sort or another. This seems to be true of malware infections too. While there can be an element of good/bad luck involved, there's also (in my view) an issue of recognizing when a particular practice leads to an unwanted consequence, then a rational thing to do is to change your actions. Maybe I'm lucky, but my security software and reasonable but not OCD practices avoid malware problems entirely. I don't read about it, follow it, or lose sleep or worry about it. I'm sure future incidents will occur, but prevention is easy and recovery is also easy. Desktop linux use is proposed by enthusiasts but seems to be dead on arrival. The percentage usage is tiny and not growing- if you rounded off, it rounds to zero. Even in enterprise settings where linux expertise is available from IT departments, there seems to be little interest in it.

You need to go to the symantec web site and find the instructions for uninstalling your version. If you don't it won't be completely removed. I went to symantec.com and clicked on support and searched for remove norton antivirus. There were a lot of hits. You should narrow it down by typing your version in the search box. Here's the link: Removing Norton Antivirus.

Regarding things left in the registry that might well be true. However with the program removed the registry entries have nothing to control so become basically dormant. You say you have now installed an anti virus program. Is this a pure A/V or a combo A/V and anti malware? If only an A/V program you would be well advised to install an anti malware as well. The popular free program these days is Malwarebytes. If you are interested it can be downloaded from here. If you go elsewhere be sure you are downloading a legit version because the bad guys have spoofed this program. Also watch carefully if you install that you remove any check marks for toolbars or other stuff you may not want cluttering up your computer.