I have spent some hours researching this issue and have not really found a solution.
Norton was one with a huge cumulative I/O and running constantly. I have Win 7 64. All software mentioned here is current versions.
Norton from Comcast - it appears to be 360 from what I have found), Prevx, and the MS supplied security software.
Looking at action center:
Firewall - Norton Security Suite on, MS off
Virus - Norton and MSE both on - no obvious way to turn MSE off
Anti-spyware - Lavasoft Ad-Watch Live off, MSE on, Norton on, Win defender off It does not know Prevx is running
Using Task manager, the following tasks are continuously generating the following:
Task I/O other Pg faults
msmpeng X X
Acronis true image monitor X
IAstordatamgrsvc X Intel app
Taskmgr X not unexpected
ccsvchst When I started investigating this was one of the
constantly doing I/O group
Currently it is not. I am not sure why. Prevx was also doing it and is not now. I tried turning Prevx off, but although it said it was disabled, the I/O continued. So I rebooted. Neither Prevx or Norton was doing the I/O thing. I have turned of
I still have constant disk access. I have seen bunches of posts about this general problem, but found no specific resolution. Multiple products seem involved; at lease to the extent that they are doing the same thing. If someone can point me at a resolution or explanation it would help.
I am thinking haunting here. Suddenly Ad-Aware has decided to run resident and activated all the things I had turned off. I just reconfigured it to only do requested scans and used task mgr to kill the processes. Now I am back to Norton running constant I/O other.