How to Remove and Uninstall Norton Antivirus & Internet Security
April 11, 2012 | 
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Are you in a need to fully remove and uninstall Norton Antivirus or the internet security version but you really don’t know how to do this? If you really need to remove this program then I’ve setup a step by step Norton removal plan for you so you can successfully uninstall Norton.
However, whether you want to remove the antivirus or the internet security feature, keep in mind that this will result in no protection for your computer. Be carefully when browsing the internet.
How To Uninstall Norton Antivirus & Internet Security
1 – Go to the “Start Menu” on the bottom left of your computer’s screen.
2 – Locate and click on “Control Panel”.
3 – Find the “Add Or Remove Programs” icon and double-click it.
4 – Here you’ll see a whole list of programs & applications that are installed on your computer. Find and select the antivirus, or the internet security version and click “Uninstall”.
5 – Confirm that you want to uninstall the program by clicking on “Remove”.
This is how easy it works. However, sometimes it can happen that the uninstall fails. This can be because it simply failed, or because there are some files left on your registry and on your hard-drive that are Norton related. What do you need to do now to uninstall and to remove Norton from your computer?
How To Uninstall Norton Antivirus & Internet Security Plan B
The best option that you can do in order to successfully do this, is to get an uninstaller software. This way, the uninstaller will fully uninstall Norton from your computer by 3 easy steps that are automated.
Firstly, the uninstaller will start removing Norton. Once that has been done, the uninstaller will scan both your registry, and your hard-drive. If the uninstaller found any related files, then it will delete them immediately.
What Are the Primary Goals of Information Security?
It doesn’t take a proverbial rocket scientist to figure out basic goals of information security. In fact, the major goal is in the name itself: securing information. The twin sister field called information assurance, also has the main goal in its title.
But if you’ve been reading these all along, the goals of this growing field (and your roles and responsibilities in it) should be getting clearer. Just as there were three large, overarching areas that organizations and companies need to consider in the security realm, so too there are three goals that each security policy should highlight: prevention, detection, and response. No policy should exist that doesn’t address these three goals.
Prevention is the means and methods that security professionals use to block someone from entering a network. Expanded to a more global aspect, prevention is not allowing someone access to your site or building. Prevention is stopping that person before he or she penetrates a system or facility.
Detection is being able to identify activities as they occur. If someone is breaking into your building you want to know this moment that this is occurring. Knowing about it an hour or even a few minutes after the fact is not a good practice. Much damage can be done in five minutes and certainly in 30 minutes or more. Detection is the ability to identify and halt someone at the moment.
Finally, response is methodologies and procedures you have in place to deal with an intrusion. Responses should be appropriate to the incident. For instance, if you discover through detection software that someone is merely pinging your site to check for vulnerabilities, there’s no need to send an alarm to the FBI because you detected the attempt, identified the source and IP address, verified it against all your database and determined that it wasn’t malicious. Those corporate policies should be well established and in place. However, if that same person keeps pinging your site for hours on end trying to find a hole in your security, you will want to take broader actions.
Information security goals should be the norm of every help desk and security professional tasked to guard your company’s or the government’s public sector network. When these are set in motion, securing the information will be a breeze. If, however, management gets lax in implementing the policies or the system administrator neglects her duties, it can have a devastating effect on the company’s entire security posture.
An Overview of Web Site Security Concerns
Unfortunately, there are many ways in which web site security can be compromised. For example, security risks exist that affect Web servers and LANs (local area networks) on which Web sites are hosted, even by the normal use of a Web browser.
Web Masters are in the front line when dealing with the most serious risks. As soon as a Web server is installed at a site, a window appears in the local area network through which anyone using the Internet can look. Of course, most web site visitors see only what they’re meant to see, but a few of them try to find elements of the site that are not supposed to be visible to the general public. Malicious visitors want to do more than merely look; they attempt to open the window and slip inside. The damage they can inflict might be mere vandalism, such as replacing the web site’s home page with one of their own which could say or display absolutely anything, or it might be burglary, such as stealing a contacts or sales database.
It is hard to escape the probability that complex software contains bugs. No matter how thoroughly it is tested, there is usually some combination of events or user actions, although it might be rare, that causes a fault. Software bugs create breaches in system security. A Web server is complex software that can very easily contain a security hole.
It is not only the complexity of a Web server that can cause a problem, but also its open architecture. Consider a CGI script as an example. A CGI script can be run at the server in response to a remote request from a client. This could be a request from an application or even the click of a button in a browser. If the CGI script contains a bug, there is a risk of a security breach.
Network Administrators also face problems from Web servers because of the risk they pose to the security of the local area network. While there must be no unauthorized intrusions, access must be granted to Web site visitors. This means that access to the network must be controlled. The Administrator must therefore perform a delicate balancing act. Even the most robust firewall can be breached if the Web server is configured badly. By the same token, normal use of the Web site can be impossible if the firewall is configured badly. Finding an ideal solution is even more difficult if an intranet forms part of the system. Typically, the Web server must then be configured to recognize and authenticate domains and user groups, which are likely to have differing permission levels and access rights.
Most people who use a browser to surf the Web believe that they are doing so anonymously and securely. This is not so. Web browsers can run self-contained programs on the client machine that are hosted by a web site. Modern browsers display a warning and ask permission to run such programs. Known generally as “active content”, e.g., ActiveX controls or Java applets, these programs, if malicious, can easily install a virus or other dangerous software on the browser user’s machine. Once it’s in the system it can wreak all kinds of havoc and can be very difficult to remove.
This is also a concern for Network Administrators. Web browsers provide a route for potentially malicious software to filter through the local area network’s firewall. Once it is in the network, the damage it can cause can range from clandestinely stealing confidential information to wanton destruction.
Apart from the issues surrounding active content, merely surfing the Web records a trail of the user’s activities in the browser’s history. This can be used by web sites and installed programs to establish an accurate profile of the user’s behaviour and interests. While this may be considered an invasion of privacy by some, it can be beneficial by displaying relevant content immediately, thus relieving the user of the task of searching for it.
Confidentiality is an issue that concerns not only browser users but also Web Masters and Network Administrators during the actual transmission of data via the Web. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic language of communication for the Internet. When it was created, security was not the most important factor in its design. Both network and Internet transmissions should therefore not be considered as necessarily private. Whenever the browser on a local machine downloads a confidential document from the remote Web server, or the browser user fills in a form with private information and clicks the ‘Submit’ button, the transmitted data can be intercepted without authorization.
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