I've recently been having extensive trouble with my legitimate and up to date copy of North Anti Virus 2003 and its Internet Protection program. It's recently been interfeering with my MSN and Yahoo Messangers, and constantly gives me a 'security alert' POP up window informing me that 'virus protection is off'.

In an attempt to resolve the issue, I unistalled the programs and reinstalled them but the problems have remained. I can not ENABLE the virus protection as I've deleted the shortcuts from my START menu and have failed to open the program up. When I did manage to load the program up, and use my supervisor account to enable the protection, the setting wouldn't stick on a system restart.

I'm at the point now where I want to unintall the program and go with another anti virus package. However, my start menu icons are still deleted, and on going to 'add/remove' in the control panel, I'm told I need to run the program from the start menu, and log in to my supervisor user account first.

I've search with my computer to try and find an icon which will load the program, but i've had no joy.

Please help, Thanks.My Norton AV is running out at the end of March and I'm going with AVG which is free and ranked higher than Norton for AV programs.SuperDave:

Have you tried turing off virus scanning of messenger in the Norton Anti-virus options?

DocHi I had used AVG free for 12 months and now use AVG professional which cost you money, if you have the money it's WELL WORTH it. But the free version is ok the thing you need to update manully