Hello people,
I’ve been using Norton for more than 2 years, but nowadays, it has started acting strange.
My PC has gradually slowed down (I am using Windows 11), and well, Norton states that there are some 2,900 issues with my laptop (regarding outdated drivers, cache, etc.) which are slowing my PC down and to fix them asks me to purchase another plan. At this point, my laptop has slowed down so much that it will take it minutes to even open up Google Chrome. So, thinking that maybe Norton would fix my problem, I purchased that plan (costed me 30$ approximately). When it got installed, and I tried to use that to fix the given problems, the screen plainly stated that there are no problems with my system. I even tried the cleaner (norton’s), and there wasn’t any. But my laptop was still very slow.
Regardless of that, I manually cleaned up stuff and tried adjusting some settings to lower down graphical input. Just a week later, I get Norton’s pop-up that there are some issues with my laptop and I could fix that with their software. Once I click on that, and it loads, it justs asks me to pay 60$. At this point, I was fed up.
I deleted Norton, tried to remove every trace and every thing it was attached to and moved on to better Antivirus, and voila, my laptop was faster again, better than before. So was really Norton worth it?
Note:
I used official Norton, with my account linked to Norton and I paid to Norton (I was able to confirm from bank receipts and payment dialogs).
I don’t usually do much on my laptop, and I have common sense, that’s why I generally won’t get affected by most of the viruses. (Except random infected files and malwares for which I have Anti-virus enabled).
I did get my laptop checked afterwards, and the technician said that there was no problem with my laptop. Everything was intact and working as it should.
@billu The scare tactics you mentioned are repeated in multiple areas here on the forums. That is the new Norton marketing policy from within the Norton suite. Most users just ignore them.
That being said. The #2 in your Note is telling in itself, in that randomly infected files/malware you have antivirus software enabled for protected you. FWIW, no A/V solution that is commercially available, will stop 100% of malicious activity. You may ask why that is so!! The simple reason is, no one has control of what you download and where you download it from. Those are personal risks that users take at their own peril. I’m betting that a professional check of your laptop would reveal multiple instances of current and/or prior infections, as well as damage system files still present. May I ask:
Is your Windows 11 install up to date? No Windows Update pending?
Have you considered doing a reset of or a clean reinstall of Windows?
Norton is really abusing the client base with the scare tactics, unfortunately there is nothing you can do to stop them. All you seem to be able to do is shut them (and ALL notifications) off for 24 hours.
I too have had the same problem. After I installed Norton 360, my system kept getting slower and slower. I ran all types of things to clean up my system to no avail. It finally got so slow that it took a minute just to open up a browser. I looked at task manager and saw that Norton was taking up 80% of my CPU process and 65% of Memory. I finally used the Norton utility to remove the software from my machine. And just like magic everything sped back up to what it was running before. I am beginning to believe that Norton is a virus in and of itself..
Ta det rolig de arbejder på dit problem lige nu jeg ved ikke hvordan de fixer det men jeg ved de arbejder på det det skulle være fix i næste patch
Husk 26.1 var jo bare en major bugfix ikke mere plus 2 ting vpn update og smart clean på forsiden