Before my gf went away for a few weeks i promised id look at a friend of her's notebook to fix it. Today i went there and got the notebook (oh damn why did i say id bring it back tomorrow, i wanna play with this beauty a few days longer
) so i get home, turn it on and yes indeed something's wrong. When i log in i can only see the wallpaper no icons no taskbar nothing, explorer is at 100%cpu usage and all this other things that make it impossible to do anything on the box, the mouse seems to do random things untill i understand left and right buttons are switched 
. My job was to format and install windows again, thereby losing all personal files. Before i go any further id like to tell you how much i hate it when ppl just say "oh ill just format and install windows again" when something's wrong with there pc, A LOT. Then the standart ctrl alt delete, and it shows no weird processes, using my inverted mouse skills i open a new task, yes indeed, the kaspersky installer on my usb stick. As soon as i restart after the install i can acces everything normally but what do i see? Norton is installed 
, ok we all know norton is crap but how can it be that norton is installed and it allows a virus to do these things before taking action? So i dont hear anything from norton as if its sleeping and doesnt wakeup by all the action going on, i scan with kaspersky and it finds 3983 infected files, suddenly in the middle of the scan,norton pops up "hey guess what i found this virus and i deleted it for you" 
.Moral of the story, it is yet again proven, norton sucks, really it does, 3983 infected files and nothing is done by norton to prevent this
