Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005 NIS2005 User Manual

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Getting started
Activate your product
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Activate your product
Product activation reduces software piracy and ensures 
that you have received genuine Symantec software.
If you did not activate your product when first prompted, 
you will receive an Activation Needed alert every day 
until you activate the product.
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You must activate your product within the time period 
specified by the alert or the product will stop working.
You can activate your product from the Activation 
Needed alert or from the Activation option on the Help 
menu. Activation should take just a few minutes.
To activate your product from the Activation Needed 
alert
1
In the alert, click 
Activate Now.
2 Click 
OK.
3 On the Activation screen, click 
Next.
4 On the Activation Successful screen, click 
Finish.
To activate your product from the Help menu
1
At the top of the main window, click 
Help and 
Support > Activation.
2 On the Activation screen, click 
Next.
3 On the Activation Successful screen, click 
Finish.
If you have problems activating
If you cannot connect to the Symantec servers to activate 
your product, first check to see if you have parental 
control software or an ISP that might be blocking the 
connection. If that doesn’t resolve the issue, you can 
activate by phone.
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