Well, for a while now I've had to keep deleting these two extensions for my firefox.
One is called Gamevance Text Links
and the other is Norton Toolbar
and it doesn't matter how many times I say "Disable" or even if I freakin UNINSTALL the damn things, they won't go away.
I even attempted to manually delete them from my firefox folder... but nothing happened. Or either that or I just did it wrong.
But the point is, they won't go away, and I want to uninstall them forever, cause I don't want them on my computer =/
Any ideas or suggestions?
If all else fails I guess I'm just gonna have to reinstall firefox, which I REALLY don't wanna do since it's memorized a lot of passwords and websites already...
Gamevance? That website gave me adware before. Have you been getting ads popping up randomly when you switch websites?
Seems like some programs running in the background that keep adding them. If you have Norton antivirus, the Norton Toolbar is kinda obvious. Idk about the other one tho.
Uninstall Norton. Kill two shitty softwares with one stone.
Quote from: yottabyte on February 24, 2010, 06:40:51 PM
Seems like some programs running in the background that keep adding them. If you have Norton antivirus, the Norton Toolbar is kinda obvious. Idk about the other one tho.
I think I have an idea on the Gamevance thing. Check your program files and see if you have a folder called Gamevance. If you do have it, then you must delete it immediately. There is a program in the folder that generates ads when the internet is open!
I've deleted the gamevance folder, and even uninstalled it from my computer, so it would make sense that it would disappear, but it hasn't o-o
And no >> I'm not deleting Norton, it's a freakin $200 program and the only virus protection I've got on this computer. I just don't want the damn toolbar for Norton on it, and I don't really wanna mess with the settings.
And, I have been getting pop-ups, but from random places, they're not constant, so I dunno if it's Gamevance's fault or what, cause normally firefox is pretty good at holding back the pop-ups.
Congrats on paying $200 dollars for what practically amounts to a virus itself.
Spybot Search and Destroy or AVG Free, ftw.
On that note, Norton IS pretty much a virus. It installed itself on my computer, and every attempt to uninstall it, it reinstalls on next startup. I had to go through some hefty processes to get rid of it...
My biggest beef with norton is actually pretty ugly on their part. One of their software, believe it was their firewall, screwed a girl's Internet over (oh, and she had some HUGE cajungas!). The paid subscription ran out, and she didn't renew it. Because of that, the software disabled her Internet connection. The only possible resolution was to remove it. I rember reading about that exact problem before, but thought it was too outrageous to be true. I was wrong.
Well shit.. this doesn't help me at all! D:
Stop being lazy and go into Norton's settings and disable the firefox extension? -_-
Uhh.... and how would I do that?
Why are everyone picking on Norton? I'm gonna use it when my F-secure license get outdated in April. I heard it's better than F-secure, at least... :-\
Oh ontopic, maybe you could.... what chaos said :P
Google is your friend. I found this (from
Norton 2008)
QuoteJohan has a good workaround, as follows: After playing about for a bit I tried an old trick, close all instances of firefox, go to the components folder as mentioned above, and remove the coFFPlgn.dll file. Create a new empty file, name it the very same, coFFPlgn.dll and set it to be read only.
I know I know I know!
Use Chrome instead.
/helpful
Quote from: yottabyte on February 25, 2010, 04:39:45 AM
Why are everyone picking on Norton?
Norton has a bad rep due to an awful history of bad implementation. It's most notorious downfall was how it would eat system resources as though they were scrumptious chocolate chip cookies. Any time it would do a scan, it would devour processors and memory rendering any other system processes useless. This is unnecessary for what it would accomplish, as it often proved that it was a lousy anti-virus and by comparison to other anti-viruses, wouldn't catch a damn thing (partly due to the fact that they are one of the most renown, so viruses were built to exploit holes in it's definitions. Much like how software engineers primary target is M$ as opposed to *nix). Another problem was its uninstaller. You would have to remove it via Add/Remove software as you would any other program, then you would also have to download and use a Norton software removal tool because they couldn't get all the traces removed via the uninstaller that came out of the box with it. People also reported that after uninstallation, traces of Norton were still present and caused B.S.O.D.'s, rendering computers useless.
There are many other smaller complications that came along with it, everything from their firewall software blocking the internet if the subscription expires (as I explained above), to it destroying desktop backgrounds and then reporting it as a virus, to just flat out frustrating you to the point of lacerating fluffy bunny's throats.
All that was written in past tense, because I have not touched Norton or McAfee (another culprit) in years, and I've heard some people say they've gotten better, but quite frankly, I'd rather not be the one to ruin a computer out of curiosity to see if they ever got their act together.
Not to mention, when we had it on my family room computer, it actually would FIND things, but would give me "Unable to remove them". What the !@#$ is the program for, exactly, if it can't REMOVE the stuff?!
You could pay someone $200 to punch you in the face, and it would be money better spent.
Quote from: Chaos on February 25, 2010, 03:16:25 PM
You could pay someone $200 to punch you in the face, and it would be money better spent.
FYI, I do punch people in the face for money. Just sayin'.
/off-topic.
Which is really hilarious because Avast! is everything Norton will never be and its only about 70 a year. Sorry Ciro, but with Norton you got !@#$ed. As far as I'm concerned it is a virus.
Quote from: Chaos on February 25, 2010, 03:16:25 PM
Not to mention, when we had it on my family room computer, it actually would FIND things, but would give me "Unable to remove them". What the !@#$ is the program for, exactly, if it can't REMOVE the stuff?!
You could pay someone $200 to punch you in the face, and it would be money better spent.
Yea I hated Norton, it found about 10 things one time when I had it and didn't delete a single virus.... then, when your subscription expires you get constant pop-up asking if you wanna renew it... I finally uninstalled it and went with Spybot S&D and it is just as good if not better...not to mention FREE lol.
This is going OT but I heard in the latest Norton they've fixed tons of stuff and it's completely rewritten. (or something like that.)
Don't care. They've already lost my business, and they aren't getting it back. You want to spend a bunch of money on an anti-virus, spend it on something good, like Kaspersky.
Hahahahaha!!! Correct if I am wrong chris, but have you not had your fair share of problems with kaspersky as well?
Quote from: Scotty on February 25, 2010, 08:19:38 PM
Hahahahaha!!! Correct if I am wrong chris, but have you not had your fair share of problems with kaspersky as well?
Don't get me wrong, Kaspersky's 2010 version has been frustrating the hell out of me with it's Early-Windows-Vista-like security, but I still can't remember the last time I HAD a virus. It's a good anti-virus, they just made their newest version overzealous a bit :-\
Aka WTF POS SOB, etc...
And thank you Ciro for letting this turn into a topic regarding how factual the suckiness of norton is!
Quote from: Mr Pwnage on February 25, 2010, 05:23:36 PM
Which is really hilarious because Avast! is everything Norton will never be and its only about 70 a year. Sorry Ciro, but with Norton you got !@#$ed. As far as I'm concerned it is a virus.
Actually, with the new release of Avast 5, the 100% free version is pretty much all that your regular user would ever really need (and then some). If you want some upgraded protection like a fancy firewall and all that then you can pay like $30 or $40 bucks a year. But yeah, I hate to break it to you Ciro but I am not a Norton fan at alllll either =x
Nortan 2008 was perfectly fine for me, but they keep spamming us with renewals and they actually charged a renewal on my dads credit card, when we don't even use Nortan anymore.
Quote from: JoEL on February 26, 2010, 08:39:27 AM
Nortan 2008 was perfectly fine for me, but they keep spamming us with renewals and they actually charged a renewal on my dads credit card, when we don't even use Nortan anymore.
I guarantee that all these issues like charging extra, blocking internet, etc.. etc... is all actually written in their EULA. You know, the End User License Agreement. Yeah... That thing everyone sees and no one reads? I bet they legitimize (I use that term lightly here) all of their stupidity through false reasoning in that document, and we are all the dumb ones for not reading it. Anyone have it that could go and read it, tell me if it is full of crap?
I use ESET NOD32 and am happy. It's relatively cheap (around 20-30 I believe) and I never hear from it except for occasional updates which are very minimal, and showing as orange in the system tray (and maybe a pop up) so you know you have to renew.
Anyways, I don't really know much about Norton. I believe I used it in the past, but not much at all. We used to use Symantec Anti-Virus at work which was basically the corporate level version of Norton. This used to be awesome and had none of the problem Norton seemed to have had. But somewhat recently they changed it to be more like Norton... so we changed anti-virus.