Service Notifications: How Do I Turn Off These Pop-Ups?

I agree. Extremely annoying. I would like to be able to use my computer. It's like the arcade game with the soft hammer and the heads popping up. Get rid of one, and another appears, and another, and another.

Anyway, the only solution I can find is to cancel my subscription. 

Onwards and upwards.

I know what I want to buy or not buy. Because of those popups being so annoying, I won't buy a thing from them. While they think it will bring in more to their bottom line, I really wonder how many people are adding features with those popups? It's a huge turnoff to me, so NORTON, I'm not buying another thing from you because of them.

Unfortunately these service notifications are "baked" into every Norton product these days. Driven by marketing. 

SA

SoulAsylum, I get that one and another one when I reboot my computer. It wants me to run a scan after reboot. I'm not liking this, because I have 3 computers spanning 3 operating systems, but the other 2 I don't fire up that often. I feel invaded by these pop-ups.

Don't dare call on tech support (really customer support, because I can't believe so many of them have little-to-no training). They'll have you doing the same tired things they always do, because they have no knowledge and are following scripts that have nothing to do with this issue.

@Trigger  The work around I shared does work, it takes less than 5 minutes to renamed those two files and stop most of the annoyances, at least on my end it does. And yes, this should be addressed, I have pushed this thread to the folks that should and can take it for action. Conversely and as stated earlier, this is driven by marketing, at a very high level. Will they take action? Most likely that answer is an astounding no. The non-sense notifications and sell-ups have progressively become worse over time, the complaints which are many have fallen onto deaf ears. Once again, lets allow someone Norton to step into the thread for answers those of us assisting with support here on the forums cannot give. 

SA

Yes, of course there are complaint websites all over the place. Problem is that 45 got rid of consumer protections, so these businesses don't have to care how many people dislike this. Nothing happens to them as a result. It's a hassle because there are so many sites spread out everywhere, and they're all ineffective to get a business to change its practices. Like vanilla versions of the BBB, FTC, Attorney General, Consumer Affairs, etc. They all placate these businesses and sing to their tune. They're a joke and a waste of lots of time & effort. I think big business pays them to stay out of the way. They're all in bed with these businesses and are practically laughing at us because nothing can stop them.

It wasn't always this way. I didn't grow up in this century and saw better days when businesses cared more. You're right; they should provide a clear answer as to why they're ignoring all these complaints, and I see more than a handful over the years. We speak for those that aren't technical enough to even know how to complain to this business & others; there are more than you can see. Do a Google search on 'Norton complaints' or 'Norton pop up complaints' and you'll have a clearer picture of the volumes of people who don't like this nonsense. It's only getting worse, because Norton isn't the only business crapping on consumers, providing horrible customer service/tech support, then ignoring end-users. I'm frustrated because we pay for this and I can't find another big-name virus product that will install on one of my machines (the main one). It's not on Windows 10+ and I will never upgrade it because of software that won't run on Windows 10+.

Indeed. Administrator privileges are required to change Norton settings. Check your private message inbox here on the forums. I'd like to ask a few questions about the software that won't run on Windows 10, maybe I can help you with that and your upgrade to Windows 10. 

SA