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Norton Antivirus 2004.
2004-07-31, 1:07 PM #1
Does Norton 2004 sign you on to MSN messenger automatically?

I installed Norton 2004 this morning and I got on internet this afternoon and I got an instant message from someone and then I realized that I never signed myself on to MSN messenger, I looked through norton and disabled the instant messenger file security thinking that might be what was doing it, but I don't remember the manual saying anything about automatically signing you on?

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2004-07-31, 1:09 PM #2
You probably have msn set to sign you on automatically each time you connect to the internet. You can disable it in options.

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2004-07-31, 1:13 PM #3
No, I have it set so that it doesn't even open up when windows starts up, plus the icon wasn't in the system tray.

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2004-07-31, 1:23 PM #4
I found this on computergripes.com:
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
In addition, installing NAV also caused one of the "Messenger" programs (XP has three programs that all go by the name "messenger") to run during the first re-boot after installing NAV. Again, this happened on both Windows XP machines. I know it is the first time that this "messenger" ran because ZoneAlarm asked about allowing the Messenger program to access the Internet. I assume that messenger got kick started thanks to the default configuration of NAV 2004 which includes running shotgun over the MSN Messenger IM software. I guess to run shotgun over it, it must first start it up. Thanks for nothing NAV. </font>


I think that's what happened.

[EDIT]found this on the NAV support:
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">http://www.mcse.ms/archive182-2004-6-786001.html
By asking the question in an MSN-specific group, I've got the solution to
this: it's related to the new Instant Messenger Scanning feature of recent
versions of NAV...


[begin: copied from another thread]
> Also, recent versions of Norton Antivirus added a new "instant messaging
scanning" feature,
> which can conflict with Messenger and cause it to also keep starting. To
stop it, open Norton
> Antivirus (Right-click on the Norton Antivirus icon in the System
Tray/Notification Area (by
> the clock), choose 'Open Norton Antivirus'), click Options, then Instant
Messenger then
> uncheck MSN Instant Messenger and click OK.

...ect
...ect
...ect

So far I've not had a recurrence of the "signed in from different location"
problem since un-ticking the setting in NAV, so I think you've solved it for
me.</font>


I'm hoping that this fixes it.

Just thought I'd post it in case anyone else has this problem.
[/EDIT]

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[This message has been edited by Stormtrooper (edited July 31, 2004).]

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