Windows XP
P4 3.4GHz
1GB RAM


My PC locked up about 5 times yesterday, and now about 4-5 times again today. In the event viewer, this same error shows up at the time of every crash:
Yesterday I uninstalled Norton completely, and even followed the instructinos as shown here to manually remove it from the registry, to try to rid my PC of it completely. But even after all that, with it gone, I'm still getting this same error message in the event viewer at the time of every crash. Wierd.

You may need to download the Norton removal program which will remove Norton entries in the registry. http://www.majorgeeks.com/Norton_Rem...NRT_d4749.html

Then go into Windows Explorer, and delete any Norton and Symantec folders. Also, go to Start?Run/type in msconfig then go to Startup tab, and uncheck anything with Norton or Symantec referenced.

I can't use the norton removal tool on my version (corporate)

Perhaps you missed one of the registry entries.

I've checked & rechecked. If I missed something then its hiding pretty good.

Did you go into Windows, and delete anything related to Norton, also, check Program files/Common files, and look in there too.

Yup. I've deleted anything to do with Symantec or Norton from anywhere that I could find it.

Do you see any processes running in the task manager that relates to them?

No processes. Here is where I am so far...

The reason I was getting the auto-protect error in the event viewer was because there was still a service for it on automatic and it was looking for something that wasn't there, so that's why I got the errors. I disabled this and I'm still locking up, but now no errors in event viewer. I'm now convinced that this is not a Norton issue, but still a security issue. Also in add/remove programs, I notice that there was a security update installed 2 days ago. I uninstalled this and it still freezes. In the middle of all this, I caught a BSOD with my audio driver. I think nothing of it, probably just a system hiccup, but I updted that driver anyway.

So now after all this the only thing I can do now is wait and see if it freezes again. If it does, then I'm gonna reseat my RAM. If it still does, I'm gonna turn off my firewall. If it still does, I don't know what I'll do, maybe kill myself just kidding. I'm gonna stop posting now so that I don't get pissed of if my PC freezes again after I typed all this out.

I uninstalled BlackIce 2 days ago and I haven't locked up since. I'll just settle for using the Bit Defender firewall.