Latest update (March.2025) is horrible!

With this new interface I started getting bunch of warnings, such as,

  • keeps asking me if my network is trustible (no matter how many time you say yes, it keeps asking next time on the pc).
  • Every time I run my own created excutibles it examines, unloads then loads back - so called safety check!
  • I already disabled all browser integrations
    It’s so ANNOYING! I wonder if the “developers” ever tested this last version. It’s a shame!

I’ve been using Norton for over 10 years and now they probably wants us to leave, ok, if that’s what you want.

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I am starting to feel the same.

All of a sudden I can’t execute my applications from Visual Studio with the debugger. If I do it just tries to start then stops. I have turned off like every setting, nothing. The problem gets worst where at first, it will be fine, but if i change a line of code (that seems to be the issue) the problem occurs. For the record “first” seems to be right after a restart.

Note I can compile my code, start the exe itself and attach the debugger no problem. But simply using the “Start Debugging” option I have used for ages, nothing.

Even more, the Smart Firewall, I can’t change the Automatic Program Control setting. It’s stuck on Smart Mode from the Advanced page, and if I click the cog to change it there, I can, but the second I leave the page and go back in, the setting reverted.

Exceptions do nothing, disabling every security setting does nothing. The support just wants to connect to my PC, I told them no!

This is infuriating.

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The homemade executable process was present before the latest update. I wrote a small program the other day in Delphi (163k) that reboots the machine (I use this for a button on my Stream Deck). The first time I ran it; I wondered if it had even worked… it was a good 5 to 8 seconds before it did as I intended. After that initial safety check, it instantly executed when run.

EDIT: Probably I’ve got another update, now it seems annoying warnings are gone. Today so far so good.

i started getting almost daily a big pop up lower right corner to install the norton browser