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Topic: OK, another computer question

Posted By: LouSWPA
Subject: OK, another computer question
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2025 at 10:25am

Do I have to be tied to a 'cloud' account? If not, how do i disassociate from them. In one case the laptop came set up for it, and in my 11 year old desktop Norton set it up and I hae since parted company with them, but cannot undo the cloud connection.

Ha! I just figured out how to resolve the laptop issue, next, on the the mess Norton left me.

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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2025 at 11:42am

step 1 'uninstall Norton

step 2 find the Norton 'folder' and DELETE it

step 3 empty recycle bin

step 4 do all this again a month from now after Norton 'magically' updates and reinstalls itself......

BTW I use the free AVAST as my antivirus, past 7-10 years ,whenever I got WIN10 on this machine.

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Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2025 at 9:40pm

I agree with Jay... it has been a LONG TIME since NORTON was beneficial. It has degraded into it's own flavor of 'junkware'.

Remember one thing: There is no 'cloud'. Whatever people think they're saving to 'the cloud'... is actually just 'saving to someone else's computer'. If you have any private documents, anything you want specially secure, if you save it to 'the cloud', you're basically handing it to thousands of people you will NEVER know.

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