Thane,
I mean no disrespect here, but perhaps you were not as agressive w/NOD32
as back 4yrs ago when you scared me into the ESET Oblivion!
I walked away from all things Norton in 1998; I've lived well without
since..... :)
Really wish I had a magic bullet here. I do not.
I have been waiting for something like this to pop up since may of US
starting using "corporate" a/v packages.
Unless NIS shares some simple "sleep-mode" process... I am clueless;
other than just uninstall and tell the user, post repair, he/she needs
to re-install their chosen a/v. Yes, really bad choice!
Sorry. I have been a/v neutral since ESET.
Best,
Duncan
On 05/25/2010 16:12, Thane Sherrington wrote:
When a computer comes into the shop, I like to disable the current AV so
as to speed up the scans and prevent two AVs conflicting. I've been
disabling the AV's services, but I've found that when I do that with NIS
(surprise, suprise, it's a piece of crap) then it shuts down access to
the internet because it's firewall is off. Then I end up having to turn
the service back on (no small feat because the PoS tries to prevent
changes to it's service settings even though it's turned off.) Does
anyone know of a better way to disable AVs (especially NIS) without
uninstalling so that I can still access the internet?
T
