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Can not Access Windows Workgroup after Norton Antivirus Install

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Hap007

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Mar 21, 2003
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Hi,

After Removing CA Internet Security Suite and Virus,
I installed Norton Anti Virus 2007.

Since then, I can not Access the Windows Workgroup from this PC.

I posted this is Windows XP forum and tracked down to the exact problem.
Using msconfig, I have discovered exactly what service is causing the problem.

The service is from Symantec/Norton Anti Virus 2007

The exact service is 'Symantec Settings Manager'.
I start this service, I can not ping this PC and Can not access Workgroup shares. If I stop this service I can ping this 'bad' PC and the Windows Workgroup shares work.

That is the good news.

The bad news, I still do not know what is set wrong and I can see no settings to change in Norton.

So, I will contact their tech support, but anyone with any experience with this is welcome to suggest how to fix this issue.

I have a 5 user license for this product and it works fine on 3 other PCs also running the same XP operating system.

Thanks,
Hap...

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