You can combine Norton with: Enabled Windows Defender Application Control Stricter firewall rules Standard user account instead of administrator. SmartScreen enabled Two-factor authentication everywhere. Then you get a more "hardened" machine, even without a button called that.
yes, but my augment with this is what normal novice user is going to know how to do this? Probably like 2% of the population considering most people don't even check for device updates among so many other things. Half the people i know i see posting they're real phone numbers online and constantly inviting identity theft.
Trust me, AVAST and AVG will also start with these Bloat, they need to sell their products one way or the other.
AVG has been untouched for years. it’s not as widely used that is why I don’t think that they would get a benefit from doing it at least for AVG. avast and Norton has always been the advertising platforms.
Norton stands out as the premium brand without a free version—they have good reason to maximize revenue per user. Avast/AVG make their numbers through sheer volume. The new Norton interface was clearly designed to market extra features more.
You can disable the ads in Norton by blocking the UI with their firewall. I’m also tired of ads in their paid software. Norton should seriously ditch the ads since they are not free versions like AVG or Avast.
Are you sure that works today? I could've sworn that blocking Norton's UI in the firewall broke other functions like updates. I found that they made it difficult to overcome ads with hacks like this when I tried very recently.
It’s been a week since I’ve set up norton like that. It updates normally but yeah the smart scan will skip the last section like advanced issues & you can’t install their browser from the UI. Other than these 2, everything else works fine. The only thing I don’t know is if it’ll have any effect on notifications since I’ve not encountered a virus till now.
When I was blocking UI for Avast and AVG, the threat notifications worked as usual.
Try going to an eicar type of test site and download a file, I'm betting you'll get a notification. As with @Parkinsond it worked as usual for me.
) once. Or is it now used to show YouTube videos internally, so you want to block some ads?
The problem ads are not limited to UI, they extend to pop-ups; before blocking UI, I get occasional promotional pop-ups springing in front of my face out of nowhere.you only see his GUI (I mean his face
As far as I know, avast has had an option to disable pop-up ads for a long time, right?
Norton option simply does not work, Ads keep popping in.
It has, and even after enabling it in settings, I get occasionally promotional popups, until I block UI by firewall.
In the norton app disable showing non critical messages and disable 3rd party usage sharing
This options is useless, does not work.
