You lose the ability to use it, and no longer have anti-virus protection ... It may work now, but if their doing their job it won't for long.

what OS do you have? and why keep buying Nortons over and over again. as for what happens no updates and you are now in danger. If in deed you have Vista here is a list for you, if not and its XP let me know and I'll get you the other list. PROGRAMS FOR VISTA LOTS OF FREE PROGRAM CAN BE FOUND AT www.pcworld.com LOOK FOR THE DOWNLOAD AT TOP OF PAGE, THEN CLICK THEN GO TO THE BLUE SEARCH BOX AND TYPE IN VISTA DOWNLOADS AND A LIST OF 39 OR MORE WILL COME UP. THERE ARE QUITE A FEW THAT ARE FREE AND SOME THAT WOULD COME IN HANDY UNDER SHAREWARE IF NEEDED TO FIX A COMPUTER AND YOU HAD NO OTHER CHOICES. ZONEALARM- FIREWALL AVG 8.0 VIRUS AVG-ANTI VIRUS (WHICH IS THE SPYWARE,MAL-WARE,ROOTKITS PROGRAM) http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antispyware/ SPYBOT 5.1 GOOGLE EARTH GOOGLE DESKTOP BELARC IE PRIVACY KEEPER Ccleaner GLARY UTILITLIES (you may have to look under registry repair programs) ANOTHER PROGRAM TO PUT ON IS JAVA 6.1 AND TO GET THIS YOU MUST GO TO JAVA sun AND DOWNLOAD. Again be sure use newest version for vista. WHERE TO DOWLOAD AVG AND SPYBOT, IE PRIVACY KEEPER: ALL CAN BE FOUND AT http://www.snapfiles.com go to the freeware section, look for Internet Cleanup, then look for the software called IE Privacy Keeper, AVG & spybot are under anti-virus and spyware tools etc ZoneAlarm is also found at this web site under firewalls. Spybot search & destroy found at www.safer-networking.org for free registry repair programs or to http://www.snapfiles.com and to their freeware section to find them also. A good freebie is go to yahoo or Google and type in Belarc and download and run that program, print out results, run and do so ever so often. Will tell you what on PC from hardware, Software, key codes etc Note these programs for the most part WILL NOT work on Vista 64 bit Go to www.pcworld.com look at top of page for downloads, next page type in Vista 64 bit and look though the free downloads, there are a few.

I maybe wrong about this. But I believe you will stop getting your updates needed to prevent getting viruses on your system.