Sander <san### [at] the-internet> wrote :
>
> See: I told you so - Norton AV!!
>

    I seem to remember some slight mention of NAV in some context at some
time in the past on some newsgroup by someone or another. Was that you?

    8-)

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Bill DeWitt wrote:

> Steve <sjl### [at] ndirectcouk> wrote :
> >
> > Try running POV as the shell, and see if pov will run like
> > that, and if it does, then you know it's not POV but windows
> >
>
>     That found it! I tried to run POV as shell and it locked up. But the
> only thing that ran before POV was Norton Anti-virus. Now I had Norton well
> before this happened, but I did an update of the .dat file because of the
> news about that virus. So I uninstalled Norton and now it runs!
>
>     Now I need a virus scanner..... maybe I should complain to Symantec...
> they just sent me some propaganda in the mail yesterday.
>

Yes. Send them snail-mail also. It's totally unacceptable to have a utility
like that de-stabalize the system. You paid for a product, you should get
something that works correctly.


--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
>     That found it! I tried to run POV as shell and it locked up. But the
> only thing that ran before POV was Norton Anti-virus. Now I had Norton well
> before this happened, but I did an update of the .dat file because of the
> news about that virus. So I uninstalled Norton and now it runs!
> 

See? Something seemingly unrelated, just as I thought.
These things are truly annoying; to think that you almost did a Windows
reinstall because of such an obscure NAV quirk.
Glad to hear that got cleared up.

Margus

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