Comments on: Remove Norton IPS And Toolbar Extensions From Firefox

By: Ranjan Seetharama

Ranjan Seetharama — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:55:11 +0000

Amazing, I was baffled for so long with the need to delete the norton add on to firefox. It blocked every attachment that i wanted to download from Yahoo.
Please post more such useful tips. This was very helpful.

Ranjan

By: MrM

MrM — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:33:12 +0000

If you use Norton Identity Safe for logging into for example banking websites you definitely don’t want to disable this, otherwise you’ll have to actually type in passwords which can leave you vulnerable to keyloggers.

By: Crisoco4466

Crisoco4466 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:29:17 +0000

I thought this was an excellent description. Clear and precise. Worked beautifully except that rebooting the computer re-established the two files again.
Actually this was my last resort as I had already tried deleting the toolbar coFFPlgn.dll file which is related to {7BA52691-1876-45ce-9EE6-54BCB3B04BBC} That was also impossible because the file is set to read only and cannot be altered in any way, even using Unlocker.
Norton has got it well covered in Firefox 3.5!
It is a great pity because both these AddOns are disabled automatically by Mozilla in Firefox version 3.5 as being incompatible.
The only way round this problem is to wait another month for Symantec to bring out a hotfix for this and then disable them yet again when they have applied it via LiveUpdate.
All this would not have been necessary had Symantec worked more closely with Mozilla during the beta stage of this version. It would also have helped if they could have provided an uninstall facility for each AddOn.

By: NNN

NNN — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:46:16 +0000

I would not get rid of them. Do so at your own risk. Norton IPS is the intrusion prevention system. It stops drive by downloads and similar web based threats.

By: Kevn

Kevn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:20:59 +0000

Do I want to get rid of them? Do they do anything other than identity safe?