I removed Norton 360 using its Removal app (which is a removal or reinstall app). I finally finish my subscription (Norton does NOT give refunds for renewal…or at least not to me). All these changes to Norton to become Norton 360 vastly increased its resource needs to the point that some less robust PCs are totally unusable until Norton 360 finishes its checking and phone home actions. I had to install a backup image to correct the problems it caused and prevent it from causing the problems again when I booted up. This caused a lot of problems for a lot of users including myself. To make Norton 360 even worse, it added a new feature about checking for updates for all your other apps. I am not the only one as their forum is filled with pages of numerous users complaining about this spamming practice of Norton and saying that they will not renew their subscription. Norton support is very hard to actually contact no matter what their web site states. All attempts and emails to Norton to resolve this were a dead end. These “security” notifications definitely meets that definition. My definition of malware is software that is designed to prevent the user from preventing the malware from running and is designed so the maker will make money from its usage. There is no way to stop or prevent these “security” notifications. Norton does have a “setting” to stop notifications, but these “security” notifications (aka scare tactic to encourage a sales) are not affected by any setting the user can make. Clearly this is an unasked for or unauthorized sales pitch directly to my PC. ![]() The notifications were about some security breach somewhere in the world and how the “ONLY” way to protect myself was to purchased Life Lock and to buy extra Cloud storage and back up all my files. Pop up notifications would appear at different times no matter what you were doing on the PC. Many other AV makers don’t provide this lame “security”. Norton “sold” me “security” protection for my iPhones, which turns out that the only “security” it provided was to alert me that a new iOS update was available. When Norton purchase Life Lock everything changed with new updates (Norton 360 is released). I had no other choice except to purchase Norton (which I have had before and considered it a resource hog). I was using Kaspersky when the “geniuses” of the IT department of my company required me to have either Norton or McAfee (only 2 choices) in order to connect remotely and told me the Norton was the best choice. ![]() I have 5 PCs (3 Windows 10 Home & 2 Windows 7) and 2 iPhones. I post my experiences with Norton 360 so the whole truth is available to average users.
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