- Feb 7, 2023
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Apparently a website redesign is on the way too. It will probably include all these illustrations as well.
Norton seem to become "Tears of the Era"
- Thread starter Begonia
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- Aug 28, 2015
- 801
This thing is not ready, it detected on my onedrive the windows update blocker and wpd.exe as some trojans, plus it deleted wise care 365 from my pc because it was also a virus. Added the first two to the exclusions, downloaded wise care again, it quarantine it, i restore it and added to exclusion, tried to install it, it gets blocked again, well i uninstall Norton, went back to v22, hopefully they will improve it.
- Nov 9, 2022
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- Feb 7, 2023
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These are suspicious tools that attackers can abuse to compromise your security.
This is snake oil and anything but wise.
That’s normal, you’ve excluded the installer, but the installed program is not excluded. It triggers detections as well, till you exclude everything.
You can report these to Avast, but I doubt they’ll reconsider.
- Dec 4, 2021
- 44
I think this new Norton 360 v24 is still in development mode. Because while downloading video or any file through the Internet download manager, my laptop hangs (like 50% performance lag), and the downloading speed reduces from 30 MB/sec to 20 MB/sec. First, I thought it was an IDM fault, but today I tested uninstalling Norton v24, and everything is back to normal. Again, I tried installing Norton v24, and hang and speed reduction issues came again. Norton's CPU will be at 40–60% while downloading. I also tested in terms of performance while downloading in Chrome without IDM., which was at the same 15-20 MB/sec with a little less hang (like 20% performance lag) and CPU usage at 25–40%.
- Dec 4, 2021
- 44
I have sent a feedback message and sent a log file created through Norton from Settings--Troubleshooting--Log a performance profile, and enabled debug logs. I hope they will resolve it
- May 3, 2015
- 1,760
When Avast and now Norton decide to remove software you want to use you can:
1) Change the behavior on detection from automatic to ask to the user. Then when it detects just add it straight to exclusions.
2) Let it quarantine the executable then remove it from quarantine. It will ask you if you want to add an exclusion.
Something you should do when using Avast/Kaspersky/Bitdefender and any other security software that creates a data cache is perform a full scan of your computer once. Then you can deal with all the problems that arise and have a significant performance boost at the same time.
1) Change the behavior on detection from automatic to ask to the user. Then when it detects just add it straight to exclusions.
2) Let it quarantine the executable then remove it from quarantine. It will ask you if you want to add an exclusion.
Something you should do when using Avast/Kaspersky/Bitdefender and any other security software that creates a data cache is perform a full scan of your computer once. Then you can deal with all the problems that arise and have a significant performance boost at the same time.
- Aug 28, 2015
- 801
- May 3, 2015
- 1,760
So far, I had to manually allow Brother printer software and Windows version of WhatsApp manually through the firewall and had to go through the quarantine routine to allow a software I use to function because it was an unsigned beta from Github and was detected by low reputation. Otherwise, no problems.
The firewall actually prompted me to know what i wished to do but it was weird to see relatively known software had no automatic rules.
- Mar 16, 2019
- 3,867
Avast's Firewall is rather problematic in my experience. With Avast aka now Norton Firewall enabled if I use AnyDesk on my phone to connect to the PC then often it causes lag. It happens only with Avast Firewall. Avast in the VM also causes issue. I cannot copy-paste file/URL from the host to the VM. It's blocked by Avast Firewall. Tried quite a few things but couldn't make it work. It's been like this basically always. Never had these issues with any other product.
- Aug 28, 2015
- 801
See now it is issues like this which makes me not want to try this new version of Norton.
- Nov 9, 2022
- 649
Just forget about Norton, install avast if you really want to use that engine. Same same different appearance
- Feb 8, 2016
- 537
This version of Norton v24 sucks. I have tested malware that goes to damage the MBR and is not blocked by the BB (same thing with Avast) while Norton v22 with SONAR succeeds perfectly in blocking the threat and preventing its corruption, making it possible to boot the system.
I would say they did a major downgrade.
Same malware also tried with Kaspersky and Checkpoint Harmony. They, too, prevent MBR corruption and the system is bootable.
I would say they did a major downgrade.
Same malware also tried with Kaspersky and Checkpoint Harmony. They, too, prevent MBR corruption and the system is bootable.
- May 3, 2015
- 1,760
I would love to see a side by side test between Norton and Avast.
- Aug 28, 2015
- 801
I will likely stick with version 22 for awhile then. I was hopeful this new version would be better but alas, it is not. Sad.
- May 3, 2015
- 1,760
In my experience many third party firewalls are problematic. Bitdefender used to block my wife's work VPN for instance... I would open a hole and it would close in the next update. Funny thing is Avast in the same machine does create the rules automatically.
- May 3, 2015
- 1,760
It should be enough. The uninstall tool is necessary only when you get dangerous files left behind, like drivers, for instance.
- Apr 13, 2014
- 942
I use HiBit, and when I uninstalled the new version, Norton’s “built in uninstaller” took over. Very slow uninstall. Rebooted after the uninstall and HiBit restarted and I was able to scan for leftovers. 300 or so leftover ”files”. Wasn’t too bad.
