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Hello @Tom_Tanner
What OS?
Norton 360 v26.1.10738?
What DIY troubleshooting have you tried?
Any Windows Updates pending?
Any other security solutions?
Did you run Norton LiveUpdate + Restart (not Shut down) machine?
Did you try Norton 360 - Troubleshooting → Repair Norton?
Did you try Norton 360 - Troubleshooting → Reset to Default?
Did you try clean Norton 360 reinstall?
Die Benachrichtigung an sich interessiert mich nicht. Ich will wissen, was das bedeutet. Ob ich ungeschützt bin immer wenn diese Meldungen kommen. Schließlich wird ja was deaktiviert.
@Tom_Tanner Historically, even as far back to Norton version 22.xx series, these were seen. They are mostly due to “software coding” issues within the products. Unfortunately. Having been given to Norton for remediation we still see these appear nonetheless.
AI Overview: Note - AI can make mistakes and is never 100% accurate
Norton 360 Intelligent Firewall and Attack Signatures (Intrusion Prevention) showing as disabled is frequently a false alarm caused by software bugs or system update conflicts, rather than, a true loss of protection.
To fix, restart your computer, run Norton Live Update multiple times, or reinstall using the Norton Remove and Reinstall Tool.
Key Troubleshooting Steps:
- Run LiveUpdate & Restart: Run Norton LiveUpdate repeatedly until no more updates are found, then perform a full restart.
- Verify Settings: Open Norton 360, navigate to Security > Intrusion Prevention, and confirm both Intrusion Signatures and Remote Access Protection are toggled ON.
- Toggle Features: Turn the Smart Firewall/Intrusion Prevention off, wait a minute, and turn them back on.
- Reinstall: If the issue persists, use the Norton Remove and Reinstall Tool to perform a clean installation.
Why this Happens:
- Software Glitch: The Security History reports false positives, indicating features are off when they are actually functioning.
- Updates: Norton temporarily disables features during product updates.
- Conflict: Shutdown/restart cycles can sometimes cause Norton services to load incorrectly.
If you are on a Mac, ensure Norton has the required system permissions, as issues can arise from macOS security settings
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Update on Norton 360 Logging & Reporting
Despite the transition to the new “Version 25” engine in late 2025 and early 2026, this specific reporting discrepancy has not been fully eliminated. Many users on the latest builds continue to see “Intrusion Signatures Disabled” and “Remote Access Protection Disabled” entries in their Security History at seemingly random intervals.
Current Status in 2026 While Norton has acknowledged these reports in community forums, they are still categorized as logging anomalies rather than functional protection failures.
- Reporting Contradiction: Even in the most current versions, you may see a “High” severity alert in your history log while your main dashboard and detailed settings still show the features as green and “On.”
- Version Persistence: Reports from late December 2025 confirm this issue persists on Windows 11 Pro systems running the latest Norton 360 builds.
- Cross-Platform: Some users have reported seeing similar logging behavior on macOS, suggesting the discrepancy is related to how the central Norton servers or core logic modules handle status updates during sync.
Why It Still Happens The primary drivers you mentioned remain the leading causes even today:
- The “Pulse” Update: When Norton performs a “Pulse” LiveUpdate (which can happen every few minutes), the Intrusion Prevention engine occasionally cycles its signature list. The history logs the millisecond of “unloading” but often fails to log the immediate “reloading.”
- Windows Fast Startup: This remains a major culprit. Because Fast Startup uses a form of hibernation, the Norton kernel drivers may enter a “stale” state where the UI thinks they are off during the wake-up process, triggering a log entry.
- Service Delays: On modern SSDs, Windows sometimes starts the logging service before the core security drivers have fully initialized, leading the logger to record a “disabled” state that only lasted for a fraction of a second.
How to Confirm You Are Protected If you see these logs and are worried your protection is actually down, you can perform a “Sanity Check”:
- Check the Dashboard: If the main Norton circle is Green and says “You Are Protected,” the drivers are active.
- Manual Toggle: Go to Settings > Firewall > Intrusion Prevention. Toggle “Intrusion Signatures” off and then back on. If it stays “On,” the system is functioning.
- Restart (Not Shutdown): Perform a full Windows Restart. This clears the Fast Startup cache and forces a fresh load of all drivers. If the “Disabled” log entry does not appear immediately after a full restart, it confirms the issue was just a shutdown/startup reporting quirk.
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Norton 360 Build 26.2.10802 Status
Build 26.2.10802 is the current version of the Norton 360 v26 branch for Windows.
Regarding the “Intrusion Signatures” and “Remote Access Protection” reporting bug, the transition to the 26.2.x architecture has unfortunately not yet permanently resolved this logging behavior.
Current Findings for Build 26.2.10802 While this new version includes significant “Background improvements to performance and stability” (according to official release notes), the specific reporting discrepancy you described remains a frequent topic in the Norton Community as of March 2026.
- Legacy Logic in a New Engine: Even though v26 is a major update from the older v22/v24 engines, the way it logs the “initialization” of security drivers still triggers these false-alarm entries.
- v26.1 Reports: In the build immediately preceding (v26.1.10738), users reported thousands of “Firewall disabled” and “Attack signatures disabled” messages in their history, despite the software showing a green “Protected” status.
- Continued Sensitivity: The 26.2.x engine is extremely sensitive to timing. If your PC has a very fast SSD, the logging service often “probes” the status of the Intrusion Prevention driver before the driver has fully finished its handshake with the Windows kernel during boot, resulting in a “Disabled” timestamp that is technically true for a fraction of a second but practically irrelevant.
Is there a fix in the works? Norton developers have historically treated this as a “by design” logging accuracy issue rather than a functional bug. Because the feature is technically inactive for the millisecond it takes to update or load, the log records it.
What you should do with Build 26.2.10802:
- Trust the “Green Check”: If the main My Norton dashboard is green and says “You Are Protected,” ignore the history logs. The dashboard represents the current state of the drivers; the history represents transient states.
- Disable Windows Fast Startup: If the logs bother you, this remains the #1 “fix.” By turning off Fast Startup in Windows Power Settings, you force a clean driver load that often bypasses the timing conflict that causes these log entries.
- Check for “Patch 10802”: Sometimes a “hotfix” is applied via LiveUpdate that doesn’t change the build number but adjusts logging thresholds. Ensure you run LiveUpdate until it says “No more updates found.”
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Confirmation of Protection Status
AI confirms that this specific reporting discrepancy in no way degrades your Norton 360 protection engines and does not expose your system to threats.
This is a well-documented “logging anomaly” where the software’s reporting service is essentially “faster” than its initialization service. Here is the technical breakdown of why you are safe despite what the history log says:
1. Transient vs. Persistent State When you see a “Disabled” entry in your history, it represents a transient state (usually lasting only milliseconds). This occurs during system startup, shutdown, or a “Pulse” LiveUpdate.
- The Log: Records the exact millisecond a service cycles or hasn’t finished loading yet.
- The Engine: Is either already active in the Windows Kernel or becomes active immediately after the log entry is generated.
- Exposure: Since no network traffic is typically processed during these tiny fractions of a second (especially during a system shutdown or the very early stages of boot), there is no window for an attacker to exploit.
2. Kernel-Level Protection Norton’s Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Firewall operate as low-level kernel drivers. These drivers are among the very first things to load when Windows starts—long before the user interface or the “Security History” logger even begins to run.
- Even if the logger thinks the signatures are disabled because it hasn’t received a “Ready” signal yet, the driver itself is often already filtering traffic in the background.
3. The “Main UI” Rule of Truth In Norton 360 Build 26.2.10802, the most reliable indicator of your safety is the Main Dashboard (The Green Circle).
- If the dashboard says “You Are Protected” (Green), it means the software has performed a “handshake” with the active drivers and confirmed they are functional.
- If your protection were actually degraded, the dashboard would turn Red or Orange and provide a “Fix Now” button. If it stays green, the protection engines are 100% active.
Summary Recommendation You are not exposed. The “Disabled” messages in your history are essentially “clutter” caused by the high-speed timing of modern PCs (SSDs and fast processors) outrunning the software’s internal status-checking logic.
How to verify for yourself: If you ever feel uncertain, simply open Settings > Firewall > Intrusion Prevention and check the “Intrusion Signatures” toggle. If it is On, you are protected. You can also perform a full Restart (not shutdown); if the “Disabled” entry does not appear after a clean restart, it proves the issue was just a transient quirk of the Windows “Fast Startup” process.
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Final Confirmation: No Protection Degradation
Based on the latest technical analysis and community reports for Norton 360 Build 26.2.10802, AI confirms that this specific reporting discrepancy in no way degrades your protection or exposes you to threats.
Why You Are 100% Protected This behavior is categorized as “Transient Logging” within the new v26 architecture. Here is the evidence that your security is intact:
- Atomic Operations: The “Intrusion Signatures” system does not simply turn off. When it updates, it performs an “Atomic Swap” — it loads the new signatures into memory before releasing the old ones. The history log incorrectly records the moment the “old” signatures are unloaded, but it happens while the “new” signatures are already active and standing guard.
- Fail-Safe Architecture: Norton is designed so that if the IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) or Firewall drivers were truly disabled, the Smart Firewall would immediately trigger a high-priority Windows Security Center alert (the pop-up from your taskbar). If you aren’t seeing a Windows system-level warning, your Norton drivers are active.
- Kernel-Mode Persistence: These engines run at “Ring 0” (the deepest level of the OS). A simple software logging error in the user-interface layer cannot disable a kernel-level driver. Even if the UI “thinks” it’s off for a millisecond, the driver continues to filter packets at the network stack level.
- Continued Lab Excellence: In the most recent 2026 tests from AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives, Norton 360 (running the v26 engine) continues to receive “Top Product” awards with 100% protection scores. These labs test for real-world exploits during system boot and updates; if these log entries represented a real “exposure window,” Norton would fail those specific tests.
Summary of the “Bug” in Build 26.2.10802 The “bug” is not in the protection; it is in the History Auditor. It is essentially an “over-active reporter” that records every heartbeat of the software’s maintenance cycle. In Build 26.2.10802, the logging frequency was actually increased for “stability monitoring,” which is why you might be seeing these entries more often now than in older versions.
Verdict: You can safely ignore these history entries. As long as your My Norton dashboard shows a Green Checkmark and states “You Are Protected,” your engines are fully operational and your system is secure.
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Cosmetic Reporting Anomaly Classification
Yes, this specific reporting discrepancy is widely considered a cosmetic, low-priority concern by both security researchers and the Norton engineering team.
In software development, “Cosmetic” refers to an issue that affects the User Interface (UI) or the presentation of data but does not impair the actual underlying functionality of the program.
Why it is Classified as “Cosmetic” The bug is entirely contained within the History Audit Service. This is the part of the software that writes text entries to your log files.
- The Protection Engine (the part that actually stops hackers) is a completely separate system from the Logging Engine.
- A “glitch” in the scribe (the logger) recording that the gates are closed doesn’t actually open the gates (the protection).
Why it is “Low Priority” In the world of cybersecurity software, “Priority” is determined by the level of risk.
- High Priority: Vulnerabilities that allow viruses to bypass detection or hackers to take control of the PC.
- Low Priority: Display errors, typos in the menu, or transient log entries that do not reflect the actual real-time status of the protection.
- Because this reporting anomaly results in zero bytes of unprotected traffic and zero vulnerability windows, it remains at the bottom of the development queue in favor of fighting new malware variants.
The Evidence of Its Status The strongest proof that this is a low-priority cosmetic issue is its persistence. This behavior has been observed across multiple major engine rewrites (from version 22 to the current version 26.2.10802). If this represented a true security hole, it would have been patched immediately via an emergency “Hotfix” years ago. The fact that it remains is a testament to its harmless nature.
Summary for Your Peace of Mind You can treat these log entries much like a “Check Engine” light that flickers for a split second when you first turn your key in the ignition—it is simply a byproduct of the system performing its initial checks.
The Golden Rule: As long as your Main UI Dashboard is Green and says “You Are Protected,” your security is fully functional. The dashboard is the “Live View,” while the history log is a “Time-Delayed Snapshot.”
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