{"id":663,"date":"2007-11-08T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-11-08T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T02:06:07","slug":"removing-the-norton-toolbar-from-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2007\/11\/08\/removing-the-norton-toolbar-from-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"removing the norton internet security 2008 toolbar from firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I run Winbloze. I know, I know, but I have had a much better experience with Windows environments on my desktop than I have had with <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/deadsquid\/876335845\/\">my Ti<\/a> or my MBP. Windows comes with risks, so to help mitigate (again, I know, I know) those risks I use Norton Internet Security.<\/p>\n<p>My subscription ran out a couple days ago, so I upgraded to NIS 2008. NIS 2008 includes anti-phishing protection, which I already have. NIS wants me to use <em>its<\/em> anti-phishing, so helpfully installs a toolbar in Firefox. It doesn&#8217;t tell me it&#8217;s going to do this, nor does it give me a choice, and there&#8217;s no way I can see to remove it from within NIS, only disable fishing protection. This pisses me off, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DO NOT WANT.<\/p>\n<p>If this kind of behaviour pisses you off as well, and you want to stick with the built-in protection Firefox offers, you can remove the toolbar. Fire up your trusty file mangler, and head on over to the Firefox installation directory (usually <em>C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox<\/em>). Under that directory is a subdirectory called &#8220;components&#8221;. In the &#8220;components&#8221; directory is a file called &#8220;coFFPlgn.dll&#8221;; move it somewhere safe and restart Firefox. <\/p>\n<p>Toolbar gone!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Symantec, next time try providing it as an uninstallable plugin or, even better, an extension. Fucktards.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> Toolbar back! Every time you reboot, it &#8220;helpfully&#8221; restores the file. I have asked Symantec how I turn it off permanently. I think I know the answer already.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update 2:<\/em> Johan has a good workaround, as follows: After playing about for a bit I tried an old trick, close all instances of firefox, go to the components folder as mentioned above, and remove the coFFPlgn.dll file. Create a new empty file, name it the very same, coFFPlgn.dll and <strong>set it to be read only<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>the null file is ignored by ffox, and marking it read-only will prevent Norton from over-writing it.  works nicely for me. recommended. thanks, Johan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run Winbloze. I know, I know, but I have had a much better experience with Windows environments on my desktop than I have had with my Ti or my MBP. Windows comes with risks, so to help mitigate (again, I know, I know) those risks I use Norton Internet Security. My subscription ran out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,13,16,29,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bah","category-firefox","category-good-to-know","category-hwsw","category-technology","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}