Showing posts with label Symantec. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Symantec. Show all posts

Saturday, July 07, 2012

Resolving the Semantic WhiteList.exe app error on the Lenovo T420 and other Product...

A most irritating thing was recurrent.

As is standard procedure on new computers these days, or seems to be, a purchase I made included the Symantec security suite, so I had to uninstall it (though to be fair, I could have had to uninstall McAfee too). Nevertheless, traces of Symantec product seemed to be left: each day something called "WhiteList.exe" kept crashing, causing a Windows dialogue with options of just closing or else closing the app and checking for errors to appear: I always just chose "close" for barely caring, (and I had searched for "Whitelist" and "Symantec" under Windows's "Program and Features" repeatedly already).


I finally took a look at the info in that dialogue by clicking "details" and discovered that it is part of "VIP Access" by Symantec, a nifty concept (<--link to the mobile version), but one I won't currently be relying upon. Searching "VIP Access" (no quotes) under "Programs and Features" gave a result, that is, "VIP Access", and this I was able to select and click "uninstall". Now that annoying crash (of a program I am not even ever invoking myself) should not keep intruding during other work!