Norton - days left

[Bill Ridgeway]

Where does Norton Internet Security get the number of days left for renewal
on the licence? I can't find it. It persists even when NIS is uninstalled
(using the Norton uninstaller) and a the registry has been scanned and
supposedly remove all unwanted entries in the Registry.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

[Rube Bumpkin]

Bill Ridgeway wrote:
> Where does Norton Internet Security get the number of days left for renewal
> on the licence? I can't find it. It persists even when NIS is uninstalled
> (using the Norton uninstaller) and a the registry has been scanned and
> supposedly remove all unwanted entries in the Registry.
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
>
>
Naughty, naughty!

As it happens, mine is up for renewal, too, on all of my systems, so I
need to buy a three-pack.

On a friends computer, I had loaded NAV. When there was a problem, I
uninstalled it, ran CClean, followed by MS regclean, followed by
RegCleaner. When I was done, I reinstalled it, and the timer/counter was
reset.

I've been stymied in the past while doing an NAV upgrade, when the new
NAV thinks the old one is still there.

There must be some innocuous entry somewhere. I think SysInternals has a
tool that will track registry access, but I'm not sure.

RB

[Charles]

> Where does Norton Internet Security get the number of days left for
> renewal on the licence? I can't find it. It persists even when NIS
> is uninstalled (using the Norton uninstaller) and a the registry has
> been scanned and supposedly remove all unwanted entries in the
> Registry.
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway

Can't be done.

[Bill Ridgeway]

"Charles" <NoSpam@spamex.com> wrote in message
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>> Where does Norton Internet Security get the number of days left for
>> renewal on the licence? I can't find it. It persists even when NIS
>> is uninstalled (using the Norton uninstaller) and a the registry has
>> been scanned and supposedly remove all unwanted entries in the
>> Registry.
>> Regards.
>>
>> Bill Ridgeway
>
> Can't be done.

Thanks Charles & Rube. I'm working on the premis that if 'it' knows this
information it must be stored somewhere on the computer and that NIS is
designed to 'overlook' the information. So, it may be more of a case of
"difficult to do" rather than "can't be done".

BTW I'm not being 'naughty' at all. I have a perfectly legit NIS installed!

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

[Rube Bumpkin]

>
> Thanks Charles & Rube. I'm working on the premis that if 'it' knows this
> information it must be stored somewhere on the computer and that NIS is
> designed to 'overlook' the information. So, it may be more of a case of
> "difficult to do" rather than "can't be done".
>
> BTW I'm not being 'naughty' at all. I have a perfectly legit NIS installed!
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
>
>

Process Monitor, from Sysinternals, might help. You should be able to
track all registry accesses from your processes. You could boot without
NIS, start Process Monitor, then start NIS, looking at all of the accesses.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx

RB

P.S. I've always wondered myself, "How do it know?"

[Bill Ridgeway]

"Rube Bumpkin" <Someone@somewhere.world> wrote in message
news:sfLqh.46449$kn7.38946@newsfe23.lga...
>
>>
>> Thanks Charles & Rube. I'm working on the premis that if 'it' knows this
>> information it must be stored somewhere on the computer and that NIS is
>> designed to 'overlook' the information. So, it may be more of a case of
>> "difficult to do" rather than "can't be done".
>>
>> BTW I'm not being 'naughty' at all. I have a perfectly legit NIS
>> installed!
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Bill Ridgeway
>
> Process Monitor, from Sysinternals, might help. You should be able to
> track all registry accesses from your processes. You could boot without
> NIS, start Process Monitor, then start NIS, looking at all of the
> accesses.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx
>
> RB
>
> P.S. I've always wondered myself, "How do it know?"

OK so let's run at this question from a different angle. If you had to keep
information about a piece of software where would you hide it?

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway