OT (possibly) how to shut off Symantic

2004-07-15 22:40:45

WindoZe XP. Earlier I posted about some bizarre CS behavior and it was suggested that Symantic AnitVirus was at fault, but I cannot kill Symantic (process Rtvscan.exe). I've tried from the Task manager - kill it, no error message but it doesn't go away. This is a company laptop. How can I subvert this behavior when I'm offline and don't really need the antivirus program?

@jjs

2004-07-16 01:39:06

"Arte Phacting" wrote in message

system tray
usually located in lower right-hand corner

right-click on the icons
read the floating menus
find the correct option
BINGO - disable a/v software

Nope. I am not the administrator of this laptop. Our ITS department installed Symantic Anti-virus. I can't get at it. I need to subvert Admin somehow.

@edjh

2004-07-16 01:59:46

jjs wrote:

"Arte Phacting" wrote in message

system tray
usually located in lower right-hand corner

right-click on the icons
read the floating menus
find the correct option
BINGO - disable a/v software

Nope. I am not the administrator of this laptop. Our ITS department installed Symantic Anti-virus. I can't get at it. I need to subvert Admin somehow.

Why not just explain the situation to them?

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@bagal

2004-07-16 02:16:26

system tray
usually located in lower right-hand corner

right-click on the icons
read the floating menus
find the correct option
BINGO - disable a/v software

Artie

"jjs" wrote in message

WindoZe XP. Earlier I posted about some bizarre CS behavior and it was suggested that Symantic AnitVirus was at fault, but I cannot kill Symantic (process Rtvscan.exe). I've tried from the Task manager - kill it, no

error

message but it doesn't go away. This is a company laptop. How can I

subvert

this behavior when I'm offline and don't really need the antivirus

program?

@jjs

2004-07-16 02:59:50

"edjh" wrote in message

Nope. I am not the administrator of this laptop. Our ITS department installed Symantic Anti-virus. I can't get at it. I need to subvert

Admin

somehow.
Why not just explain the situation to them?

LOL! They don't care! Sometimes I think they would be the happiest if we never used the computers.

@Stuart

2004-07-16 13:13:11

jjs wrote:

"edjh" wrote in message

Nope. I am not the administrator of this laptop. Our ITS department installed Symantic Anti-virus. I can't get at it. I need to subvert

Admin

somehow.

Why not just explain the situation to them?

LOL! They don't care! Sometimes I think they would be the happiest if we never used the computers.

The only way around that is to find out what the administrator login is and go and change your user to a super user, you can then still login as normal but you should then be able to turn Norton on and off.

Obviously that is a big if.

Stuart