Norton Internet Security 2008 and Vista's Security Center

After installing Norton Internet Security 2008 on my Vista Home Premium I
noticed the WSC is not detecting it at all. On There live chat they said
Microsoft can solve this one. So what can I do to find out why WSC is NOT
find NIS 2008?
TIA:)

What you might try is resetting WMI. I have had to do this several times in Vista, it seems like the SecCenter in Vista is buggy. What you do is this:

Click on Start---All Programs---Accessories and right click on Command Prompt.
Select "Run as Administrator"
When the cmd window pops up you should be in the /windows/system32 directory.
Type cd wbem
Type or paste the following:

net stop winmgmt

rmdir /s /q repository

net start winmgmt

Exit the command window and bring up Security Center. It will inform you that the service has been turned off so click on the button presented to turn it back on. After a few minutes the Repository will be rebuilt and hopefully it will see NIS 2008.

BTW, I also use NIS 2008 and loving it :)

"The retail version of Norton can play havoc with your PC" What are you
basing this on, 2006-back? It is clear you haven't used '07-up. Stop the
bashing and try to help the poster. Other programs have messed SecCenter up
as well, either it is a bug or software writers haven't figured out to write
the uninstall routines right for Vista yet. I have had to do this several
times on different AV and firewall programs so it isn't Norton's fault.

BTW, the SymNRT is supposed to be used only if the add/remove fails or if
you want to clean up some more after a successful remove. It does NOT
replace add/remove and using it as so will cause problems on future installs
of other programs. Remove NIS via add/remove first and then run SymNRT.

As far as comparisons go, NAV beats KAV on every performance test except
bootup time:

So you Norton bashers are going to have to find another victim. There are
user inputs out there that said that NIS '08 is even lighter than Symantec
Endpoint Protection 11 (the new corporate SAV) so that should tell you how
light Norton is now.

Yes, yes. I have seen your posts in here (and others of your ilk)
proclaiming Norton is the source of all evil. And it is clear you know
nothing of Norton except maybe using it in the past when it was bloatware
because you didn't even know how to use SymNRT correctly.

And to comment on your "irrelevant drivel", you are aware that this is a
VISTA forum and of course the poster already has Windows Defender. And I
noticed you mentioned NIS breaking XP. It pretty much tells me you have all
this typed down nice and neat and stored somewhere ready to cut and paste it
when you see the word "Norton" (or any other AV you don't care for).

Go search in other security forums. You will notice that other people have
had this same problem with SecCenter even with the "irrevelant" AV's you
mentioned.

Yes, yes. I have seen your posts in here (and others of your ilk)
proclaiming Norton is the source of all evil. And it is clear you know
nothing of Norton except maybe using it in the past when it was bloatware
because you didn't even know how to use SymNRT correctly.

And to comment on your "irrelevant drivel", you are aware that this is a
VISTA forum and of course the poster already has Windows Defender. And I
noticed you mentioned NIS breaking XP. It pretty much tells me you have all
this typed down nice and neat and stored somewhere ready to cut and paste it
when you see the word "Norton" (or any other AV you don't care for).

Go search in other security forums. You will notice that other people have
had this same problem with SecCenter even with the "irrevelant" AV's you
mentioned.

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:20:39 -0500, midway wrote:

> Yes, yes. I have seen your posts in here...

You may have seen it but you didn't comprehend.

> proclaiming Norton is the source of all evil.

Huh?

> And it is clear you know nothing of Norton except maybe using it in the past
> when it was bloatware because you didn't even know how to use SymNRT correctly.

Instead of ranting try to educate us, how about it?

> And to comment on your "irrelevant drivel"...

You mean to comment on YOUR drivel!

> ...you are aware that this is a VISTA forum...

Yes, I am.

> and of course the poster already has Windows Defender.

Good.

> And I noticed you mentioned NIS breaking XP.

Really, did I?

> It pretty much tells me you have all this typed down nice and neat and stored
> somewhere ready to cut and paste it when you see the word "Norton" (or any other
> AV you don't care for).

Yes and no - "care for" is not the issue; Efficiency is! (Look up the word
in the dictionary).

> Go search in other security forums.

No need; The retail version of Norton is a sorry apps.

> You will notice that other people have had this same problem with SecCenter even
> with the "irrevelant" AV's you mentioned.

Oh well.
--

I do comprehend more than you know especially by your responses. Such a
shame...

I did mention the proper use of SymNRT. It appears that you haven't
comprehended what I said. Of course prejudice can cause blindness in these
cases. You are no different than the others. Not important enough for me
to waste any more time on.

And I didn't need a "crib sheet" for this. I "rant" in real time.

You are a nut. NIS2007 works fine on Vista, you clueless TWIT.

Midway - I tried this approach to the fixing the WMI and WSC and the buggy
problem with NIS 2008. When the computer (running WinVista Home Premium)
boots up, I still get the message from NIS that the antivirus is still not
active, even though the NIS window shows that portion of the product is
active. The computer is for a "non-techie" who gets very easily freaked out
when they get any kind of error message outside of "normal" software updates.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! TIA!!