Norton Antivirus Not Working

Norton antivirus mainly targets to secure you from the online attacks. It monitors all the internet traffic of your device and also the internal software processing to keep your system safe. But if your Norton software is showing errors message while opening or installing then it must be because of some specific reason.if you are facing this kind of issue the you can follow these common troubleshooting tips to fix this issue yourself.

Before coming to the solution make sure you have an activated Norton setup.if you don’t have one then you can simply restart your device or try Norton removal and reinstall tool to reinstall it again and activate with a Norton product key.

These are some of the issues which can stop the Norton software from opening along with its solution.

• Incomplete Download: Since most of Norton programs come online and you have to download them,so sometimes while downloading the Norton Security programs using the Norton Download manager the downloads might get interrupted, which results in Start-up issues. Since the program is not downloaded completely so it doesn’t open. In that case you can reboot your computer and starts the download manager again. Now enter the Norton product key you have got while buying this  and re-download the program again. And then try starting the Norton software again.

• Quick Fix: As its name specifies this solution is quite quick to process. Norton have mention mainly three errors which causes the Start-Up issue which are "8504,104," "8506,421" and "3048,3.”if you are seeing any of this error then Norton recommend you to smile restart your desktop. As it closes all the programs including Norton and when it starts again it will solve the common issue which is causing errors.sometimes due to any hardware problem or any software clash this problem occurs but restarting your windows will vanish the system’s memory and will eventually solve the issue.
• Re-installing Norton: Unless your antivirus program is targeted specifically by a virus, reinstalling your Norton Software can completely solve your issues. You can use tools like Norton Power Eraser or Norton remover tool  to completely uninstall all the components of Norton from your desktop.but before performing this use some other security tools to remove the viruses which affected the Norton Startup process and removes it. Once the virus is removed then uninstall all the components of the Norton Using any of the tool and reinstall it again.now you can use it normally again.

• Stalled Components: This problem might be related to Norton intelligent Updater service, which launches every time you try opening Norton and remains after the re-installation.this error comes under the 3048 category.To fix this issue you can update the Norton component, which is blocking the startup process from the Norton Intelligent Updater sites and try loading the Norton again.

These kind of errors sometime occurs when you try to install Norton Software along with any other antivirus program like McAfee antivirus.you have to delete all the components if other antivirus before installing the latest Norton Setup. if you are McAfee user then you can use these McAfee tools for removing or installing your McAfee antivirus.

So these are some of the issues along with the solution which you might be facing if its showing any error while loading Norton. If the problem still persist then you can contact at help.Norton.com for further help to get your issues solved.

Hope this article could help you to solve your issues!