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I tried Silent mode and it did not work. I have five computers running, and within a day saw the same problem on all of them. I you look at the resource monitor there are 10 files running from Norton moving about 6MB/sec. I contacted customer service last night thinking I may have a virus. I let them take control of one of my computer so they could see the problem. After a half hour they told me it was normal. My computers with SSDs well have shortened life plus slowing them down. I've started removing Norton from my computers and will use Windows virus protection at the moment.
This does not work it starts up again, the whole thing needs a new patch.
Norton please resolve, thanks.
I just rebooted and replicated what I did before that worked: Bottom Right Toolbar, Click "View hidden items", Right click on the Norton Icon, Turn on Silent mode (Duration: 1 Day), disable Auto-protect, disable firewall. Left click on the Norton icon to open the Norton program, it'll say "FIX NOW", click that and allow it to turn auto-protect and Firewall back on, close it out. Done. Tested it on my wife's Desktop machine, and my Surface Laptop and it worked on those also. It's a temporary fix, but it worked.. Hope this helps.
Silent mode didn’t work for me either, but was worth a shot. What did work for me was to change the mouse pointer icon for “working in background” to the same as the normal icon. Not a fix, but at least stops the annoying blue circle popping up every 2 seconds.
Unfortunately the silent mode trick didn't work for me. Opening/closing (sometimes after running 'get support') still works for a bit for me. But as soon as a background task is triggered it goes right back to spinning/CPU.
I just clicked on "Show Hidden Items" on my Window's Bottom Right Tool bar, then Right clicked on the Norton icon there, then chose "Turn on Silent Mode" (Duration: 1 Day). That (Supposedly) stops Norton's background processes.. Either way, it stopped that "flashing blue circle icon every 3-4 seconds" thing.
It may only be a temporary fix until Norton gets this current mess fixed, but it worked on all of our computers here.
Same exact problem.. except I have to add "Already LOST the faith" since the Lifelock merger... My Wife and I just removed our automatic subscription.This CONSTANT "Norton Fail" with bugs and CONSTANT NORTON SPAM over the last few years wastes a LOT more of our time than it saves. Decided to just delete this hot mess when I get a few spare minutes, and then carve out the persistent "Norton Stay Behinds" from the System Registry piece by piece.
Hey guys check out my thread i posted about this here in this forum! Go read it!
HAHA, Yeah we know, now if Norton could please do something about it. How did this last update pass QA? Some of us use our machines and service machines with several flavors of anti virus and security software..
It's real hilarious because after about 30-45 minutes of usage any ding bat novice could see there's an issue!
Come on Norton. Losing the faith.
On W10 21H2 a recent Norton Update is causing increased CPU utilization (bouncing from 3 - 18% with average ~6%) which, in turn, is causing mouse cursor icon to flash blue circle icon every 3-4 seconds. This is not caused by 2022-04 CU KB5012599 as uninstalling it does not resolve the issue.