It is any key for this NIS? Where can I get one?

Thank you very much, works great!

@ katten snurre - why would you need a key? With this trial reset the 15-day trial will last forever ;)

Oh yes I almost forgot - the trial limit only resets when you reboot computer, so if you have your computer on for 5 days it will say ''10 days left'' but after reboot it will be 15 days again.

Some (like me) found it DOES NOT reset. Reason is because it was NOT loading on boot as a service. FIX is to check the REGISTRY..this TRIAL RESET will be under HKLM/SYSTEM/ ControlSet001 instead of CurrentControlSet. Export the relevant branch from one, edit then merge to have it moved to CurrentControlSet...reboot...works beautifully..reset mine from 9 days to 15days. Requires familiarity with REGEDIT.

oops...that should be HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/SERVICES...left out the services.

Still works fine, resets every time. Computer is clean, I don't even notice having an Security Suite installed (although log files are full of attacks, suspicious files, cookies etc.).

hey if anyone is having trouble then copy this into a text file and save it as a reg file. then merge it. i think that will work (did for me) coz its in the wrong place for some people dunno why.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\.norton2009Reset]
"Type"=dword:00000010
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,\
20,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,4e,00,6f,00,72,00,74,00,6f,00,6e,\
00,32,00,30,00,30,00,39,00,52,00,65,00,73,00,65,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="Norton2009 Reset"
"ObjectName"="LocalSystem"
"Description"="Norton 2009 Trial Reset"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\.norton2009Reset\Enum]
"0"="Root\\LEGACY_EKRN\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\.norton2009Reset\Security]
"Security"=hex:43,00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,49,00,4e,00,44,00,4f,00,57,00,53,00,5c,\
00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,65,00,67,00,\
65,00,64,00,74,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,\
00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,49,00,4e,00,44,00,4f,00,57,00,53,00,5c,00,6e,00,\
6f,00,64,00,33,00,32,00,66,00,69,00,78,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,64,00,6f,00,6e,\
00,6f,00,2e,00,72,00,65,00,67,00,00,00

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I think that will work but maybe it is specific for my pc, i have no idea reli but give it a go.

oh ya for you folks who have had norton products i think after 2007 it stores your key in a encrypted registry file somewhere i wasnt able to get it out.....anyhow so everytime you click on the lil icon in the system tray it would launch and connect to symantecs server and shut off the program because it found my old expired key.
Alas though ive found a way around all that nonsense ...if you have a firewall capabable of blocking these two ip addresses it will trick norton into thinking your offline and you just press try later and whola you have full access without disconnecting your internet

since im using the firewall that comes with the program i just used peer guardian two and made my own list with these two ip addresses and just start peer guardian whenever i want to look at my norton (ie) change settings run a computer scan or whatever
the ip addresses of the symantec activation server are
206.204.54.103
216.12.144.16
if you decided to it in peer guardian use the same ip address as the starting and ending ip address
this technique should work as long as norton keeps the same ip address for its activation server
peace
combovax
p.s
if this works for you let me know its working for me

Many thanks to King_Dommy
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My Norton 2009 GE unexplainably stoppped working last night. Obviously the trial reset tool won't work as the "Tamper Protection" is on and an expired trial version won't let you do anything except phone home to Symantec. Restoring an old registry backup is not the solution either (that would be too easy and the Norton programmers aren't dumb). I tried King_Dommy's possible solution of making a REG file and adding it directly to the registry. Once that was done I had to run REGEDIT, went to the ".nortonreset key to change the path to point to my location for the Norton2009Reset.exe service file, restarted Xp, and Norton was back to normal.

!!!! IMPORTANT FYI !!!
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I found as of 3-26-09 that the latest update to the Norton database now flags the "norton_trialreset_1.5v.exe" file as a hack tool and auto quarantined it so I had to go in, restore the file, and then add it to the exception list so it will ignore the file forever.

Forgot to mention I also null routed the 2 IPs for the Symantec Activation Server by adding them to my HOSTS file (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC). Don't know if this was the trick to get my Norton 2009 GE back to normal operation but it was easy to do and can't hurt.