NIS 2009 update trashed Win7 7057

[Matthew Waldron]

I wanted to give a heads up to everyone who uses Norton Internet Security 2009 - They pushed an update to the program on wednesday or thursday and this update causes a black screen on Win7 7057 - Not sure what this is supposed to fix, but it doesn't fix win7.

I had two machines affected by it, found out after formatting/reinstalling that it was the NIS2009 update. Hope this will help everyone!

[Scrinner]

KIS for me flagged the realtek audio driver installer as a virus and corrupted the install. It at one point went haywire and declared every website malicious. Suffice to say i quickly removed it

[Inctye]

Hmm. I was running NIS 2009 yesterday, but there were certain UI features that stopped working. I don't know if it was one of the other programs I was testing caused that or if it really is what you mentioned. Though, I never got any black screens.

Either way, I had to redownload the ISO (forgot to back it up last time) and reformat. This wasted a few hours of gaming last night.

EDIT: After the reformat, I decided to give Norton 360 v3.0 a shot. It just released a couple weeks ago and running the 30-day trial for now. I've used a lot of different security suites, and this trumps them all in terms of simplicity, performance, and security.

Edited March 20, 2009 by revreddy

[Jackalito]

I don't use it, but thanks for the information.

[DerAusgewanderte]

I wanted to give a heads up to everyone who uses Norton Internet Security 2009 - They pushed an update to the program on wednesday or thursday and this update causes a black screen on Win7 7057 - Not sure what this is supposed to fix, but it doesn't fix win7.

I had two machines affected by it, found out after formatting/reinstalling that it was the NIS2009 update. Hope this will help everyone!

running 7057 64bit on two machines, here. haven't noticed any problems after running update just now.