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Guess they don't want to scare any 30 day trial customers away. You only get the lying scam tactics when you have the real Norton Antivirus programs.

I still can't believe that they think we are all so stupid that they can plant phoney files with imaginary viruses just to scare you into buy their updates. What a bunch of idiots.

Jorge, the Norton warnings are being generated from the Norton Anti-Virus program itself. They aren't coming from the net. You can turn off the warning somewhere in the "options" area off the norton program. Its a little different for different versions of the program, but you should be able to poke around until you find something with a check-box that says words like "Warn me when my subscription is about to expire". Unclick that and you are home-free. Of course, any new types of virus will not be detected since you won't have the latest update of virus definitions in your software. And they aren't going to give you that update if you don't buy the subscription.

OH, Jorge, I forgot to add, unclick any box that says something like "automatically update Norton Anti-Virus". This is an automated program that runs at startup and looks for the latest definitions of viruses from Norton's web site. If your subscription has run out, this feature could be bringing you the warnings as well, since you aren't going to get any updates any more.

I tend to NEVER let programs automatically search for updates - I'll do it myself. Why? Primarily because I don't trust them, but also because they clog up the computer by using resources that should be available for things you are working on at the moment. The auto update feature can sometimes cause conflicts as well. I had a game, Sim City 3000 that tried to access the net and update itself, but it ran in conflict with Zone Alarm and crashed itself every time. Stopped crashing when I turned off zone Alarm, but then it had free access to the net by itself.

Jorge, the Norton warnings are being generated from the Norton Anti-Virus program itself. They aren't coming from the net.

Yes, I assumed they were coming from the Norton AntiVirus program, not the net since I have Live update option disabled.
They were just interupting me while I was online.

You can turn off the warning somewhere in the "options" area off the norton program. Its a little different for different versions of the program, but you should be able to poke around until you find something with a check-box that says words like "Warn me when my subscription is about to expire". Unclick that and you are home-free.

I didn't mind it telling me that it was about to expire...it's that it keeps warning me that it HAS ALREADY expired, is out of date and I needed "purchase" updates.

I have tried to configure the Norton Options and have unchecked every box that has to do with notifying me about updates and I still get the stupid warnings.

But what really ticked me off is the program generating phoney virus files and producing these pop-up alarms...telling me that it has detected files infected with viruses on my computer but wasn't able to neutralize them because my Norton Antivirus program was not up to date.

Again, So I located and checked out the files that Norton was warning me about...and I found they contained no virus..in fact... contained no data at all. Nothing. They were always empty files.
This is simply a deceptive business practice designed to scare you into purchasing more updates.