Well in that thread it seems that the people are talking about Norton Internet Secruity 2005 suite (NIS05). A all-in-one application.
I have NAV 2005 and Norton Firewall 2004 and Ghost 9 w/ Ghost 2003 and Norton System Works 2003 (I think its 2003, not sure). I don't like NSW but my girlfriend likes it on her PC, God only knows why,lol.
I have 4 computers in my family and Norton AV and FW are on all of them. Now having experience with Norton products I find it best to install them after a fresh install (reformat). Thats what I did and I have'nt had any major problems. All of computers run XP:HE and everybody on each PC has a limited account except me.
Since I made everybody have limited accounts the amount of viruses went down dramatically. Limited accounts cannot install applications and do not have access to critical OS files. Only admins have access to everything and can install apps.
As for the people that have problems with Norton , when they post their problems you never get the full story to exactly what went wrong. Viruses don't just magically appear on a PC. Some people surf the web looking at porn, Use p2p apps, bittorrent apps, Keygens, cracks, emulators , install games laced with spyware and or trojan horses etc. Or let their kids play on the computer un-supervised. I bet some of these people haven't even opened the manual that comes with every Norton product nor do they understand how to configure and operate their software,lol.
I gave up on High jack this logs, I only read them when people post what to delete,lol.
Back on Topic: Ill try just using the set up file on the cd, if that don't work I will try and burn a ISO image of the cd and mount it with Daemon Tools, but I hope I don't have to do that.