Decided to end my “relationship” with Norton Internet Security 2007, primarily because I didn’t want to renew the subscription and was noticing a slow boot that became more and more irritating.
So, I went to Avast anti-virus and Comodo Pro firewall. I ran Norton Removal Tool to supposedly rid all Symantec traces. Loaded Avast with no problems and then Comodo. A notice indicated that Comodo had found Sygate still operating. Finished the installation and ran the diagnostic, which showed Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6 installed. Searches for Sygate, sybergen, and SPF showed nothing. Ran Norton Removal Tool a second time. A Google search led to a number of links regarding uninstalling Sygate– one in particular seemed viable.
So I did a search through regedit and found the following which shows additional registry entries for Symantec and Sygate, doing the search after running the registry cleaner in jv16 Power Tools. Some of the entries listed in the above Hackfix link don’t exist: teefer.sys, wps.dll, plus a couple of others.
So, am I safe in deleting the registry entries shown in the attachment? If so, should I uninstall and reinstall Comodo? Comodo seems to be running well although it hasn’t detected any incoming intrusions but did check 7 outbound.
