Symantec AntiVirus auto protect will not enable

Desable your antivirus or uninstall your antivirus

I hope the issue is not related to Norton.

To confirm, please disable the Norton program on your computer and check if you are able to watch videos.
To disable the Norton program, right click on the Norton icon which is on your task bar's bottom right side.

Then, click on turn on silent mode, disable smart firewall, disable antivirus auto protect. It will disable the Norton product for a few minutes. To enable them, please open the Norton program and click on "fix now".

Regards,
Muhaim

There are couple of ways to enable Symantec auto protect.
Step 1: Right Click on the little shield like Icon on system tray (Right next to date and time). Left click once on enable Auto Protect.
Step 2: Click on Start and then all Programs. Look for Symantec Client Security and then Symantec antivirus. Click on the Configure Tab and click on file system auto protect. Check the Option Enable Auto Protect and then Click on OK.

1. Start Norton 360.
2 In the Norton 360 main window, in the upper-right corner, click Tasks & Settings.
3 In the Tasks & Settings window, on the right, click Change Advanced Settings.
4 In the Advanced Settings window, click Virus & Spyware Protection Settings.
5 In the Automatic Protection Settings tab, check Turn on Auto-Protect.
6 Restart the computer.

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hmmm. may be your antivirus corrupt...

first you need to stop all he services of symantec from sirvices.msc
....then stop services and finally go to the msconfig through run command and uncheck stratup program for symentic and then restart system....

1. run the liveupdate
2.click on start and inside the start search type msconfig check whether it is in selctive or normal startup (it should be normal startup) change the date to one month before and run the liveupdate again and restart the computer

want to turn on Auto-Protect permanently
1 Start Norton AntiVirus. If Norton AntiVirus is part of Norton SystemWorks or Norton Internet Security, then start that program. 2 Click Options. 3 In the left pane, click Auto-Protect. 4 In the right pane, check Enable Auto-Protect and Start Auto-Protect when Windows starts up (recommended). 5 Under "Select the duration," select Permanently from the drop-down menu. 6 Click OK. 7 Exit Norton AntiVirus. 8 Restart the computer.

Close the antivirus program and reopen it. When it isclosed, the icon yellow for norton will not appear on bottom right hand side along with volume icon etc. You may also restart the computer to see id that helps. Right click the Norton icon and see id it says ENABLE AUTOPROTECT or DISABLE AUTOPROTECT. Try enabling.Try the same update after a while. If that does not work, try reinstalling Norton. I get 100s of viruses from 100s of friends and all sorts of things happen to me anti virus etc
but I am told that pretty normal

Hello hawk893

Are you logged into a Windows profile w/ Administrator privileges?

If not, change your user profile rights to Administrator (from another Administrator profile).

If the problem persists, enter Safe Mode and try enabling and disabling NAV (Norton Antivirus) from there.

If the problem still persists, you may have picked up a virus that disabled your AV software. You can go HERE if you like to perform an online AV scan. There are other sites as well that will do this for you. Just perform a search engine search on "Online AV Scan".

If you need assistance w/ any of these recommendations, just let me know. I'll be happy to provide detailed instructions for you.


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Thank you
BJ

Hi, It would seem that at one time Symantec AntiVirus was installed in your PC. Part of its protection design is to ingrain itself within the shell of windows explorer. There is a possibility that the program was forcibly removed by folder delete and not through the usual uninstall as you posted. Remnants of the program are still present/active and were not uninstalled. A couple of things you can try: 1. Install Symantec AntiVirus again and then uninstall using the auto/complete option; 2. Install Norton Utilities and run WinDoctor, after scanning, click "Repair All"; 3. Install WinOptimizer and and run using User Defined option, check everything and start, delete erroneous entries; 4. go to Start, Run, type "msconfig" without the quotes, in the Startup tab, uncheck all references to Norton or Symantec; 5. go to Start, Run, type "regedit" without the quotes, in the Registry Editor press Ctrl + F, type "Symantec" in the Find what, click on Find Next, delete all instances. This is of course assuming that you do not have any other Norton/Symantec programs essential to your PC and that you have taken the usual precautions of registry backup, system restore point. Hope this be of some help/idea. Post back how things are or should you need additional information. Good luck and kind regards.