Norton Anti-virus install problems

I was trying to install Norton Anti-Virus, and a few minutes into the
install it stopped and gave the following error:

SYMANT~1.EXE - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on
OK to terminate the application.

After clicking OK, I get the same exact message for LUCOMS~1.EXE, and
after clicking OK once again, it said the installation failed. I have
tried this multiple times, each time completely uninstalling and then
restarting the computer, but to no avail. I have also searched Google
a lot, and no one seemed to have a solution. Any help would be
appreciated.

Also, I don't know if this is related, but the same type of thing
happened with McAfee virus scan on my computer. It installed, but
every time I tried to run it it crashed with that same application
error as above.

Thank you.
--Mets501

Interesting, I'll try a chkdsk, multi_av.exe, and Knoppix and see what
I can do. Thanks for the suggestions!
If you're curious, the hard drive is about 1 year old, so I don't think
it should be going sour yet.
And I had to install Norton, it was on sale at Best Buy on Black
Friday.

Todd H. wrote:
> mets501 DeleteThis @gmail.com writes:
>
> > I was trying to install Norton Anti-Virus,
>
> Unfortunately that ws your first mistake.
>
> > Also, I don't know if this is related, but the same type of thing
> > happened with McAfee virus scan on my computer. It installed, but
> > every time I tried to run it it crashed with that same application
> > error as above.
>
> Have you run a chkdsk recently? Hardware problems with your disk
> going south can cause this, as can bad memory or a motherboard
> problem. Also there is malware out there that will prevent the
> installation of the major AV players.
>
> Try david lipman's multi_av.exe command line scanners. If that
> fails too, you may want to investigate offline scanning with a Knoppix
> cd and clamav or by dropping your hard drive into another computer and
> having it scnaned.
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Todd H.
> http://www.toddh.net/