Imacri, I'm watching the HD high I/O thread as well, have the settings done like SLEE2's now, needed that as I had the high I/O before as well. It had basically tied up my computer if I had to access the disk.
lmacri wrote:Hi ispalten:
I seem to recall that the Smart Firewall settings are reset to their defaults, even if you select "I plan to reinstall a Norton product. Please leave my settings behind" during the unistall. The first time each program on your computer attempts to access the Internet through the firewall, a new program rule will be automatically created - see Settings | Network | Smart Firewall | Programs Rules | Configure to see the level of access (Allow vs. Auto) the firewall assigns for each program depending on its application trust level - see here for more info. Once those rules are created over the next week or so the prompts from your Smart Firewall activity should decrease.
That being said, there is a known bug in the NIS 21.x firewall that causes high I/O problems if users turn OFF Automatic Program Control for the Smart Firewall and turn ON Advanced Events Monitoring (Settings | Network | Smart Firewall | Advanced Settings | Configure | Automatic Program Control | Configure | Advanced Events Monitoring) - see slee2's thread here. Untill this bug is fixed make sure that you leave Automatic Program Control set to Automatic (the default) and let the Smart Firewall control how programs access the Internet.
I had to reset the settings (Slee2's suggestion) back to default. I couldn't even USE the computer for 10 minutes or so. It is one thing it seems to set them ONCE almost all the apps have been determined if they can use the internet or not, and another when hardly any have been determined. Slows the boot process down severly.
Also, many of those prompts 'puzzled' me? Some appeared more than once, but they could be for different ports in a program? Some clearly were for the first time use, such as VLC's network access request. However, it appeared behind the program AND the program seemed to work OK? I know I saw at least 2 for it? One after I closed the program? It is possible since I didn't respond to the first one, nothing was done with the request and VLC made another attempt to use the Internet when closed I guess.
So for now, setting back to default, at least until I get most of the programs auto-set.
You can see the Norton usage drop after I changed back to the defaults.
Good news on the SCAN,
I disabled D:, X:, and also my SSR backup folder which is over 700GB's in size. Scanning takes less that 1/2 the time it did before, not that it mattered, I never knew it was running.
Hi ispalten:
The completion time for your full system scan definitely looks more reasonable now that you've excluded a few locations. A typical full scan of my SATA HDD (106 of 220 GB used, approx. 980,000 items scanned) takes about 1 hour, 30 min to complete on my older Vista PC. It also looks like the bug in the NIS 21.x Smart Firewall when Advanced Events Monitoring is turned ON (see anotherbostongu's thread here for another example) was responsible for much of the high CPU activity by NIS.exe outside of system idles. It's hard to tell if the re-install of NIS helped but it doesn't seem to have created any new problems, and it likely cleaned out some orphaned files and registry entries from your old installations
I'm afraid I can't provide much insight into the prompts you were seeing from your firewall, since I've always used the defaults (Settings | Network | Smart Firewall | Use Section Defaults) since NIS 2009 and never had a problem with my firewall performance. I don't see a NIS firewall program rule for my 32-bit VLC Media Player v. 2.1.1 (Settings | Network | Smart Firewall | Programs Rules | Configure), but I have automatic updates disabled in my VLC settings and always decline installation of the Mozilla and IE plugins for VLC that eliminates most, if not all, VLC activity through my firewall. I doubt if it's relevant, but there is an unpatched vunerability in the VLC v. 2.x plugins dating back to 12-Dec-2012 (see the link to the Secunia Security Advisory SA51464 here) that might have had something to do with your pop-ups. I use an older v. 2.0.0.3003 of Secunia PSI to run security checks on my software, since this was the last version of PSI to include a feature to scan browser extensions and plugins for known vulnerabilities.
Don't forget to disable your Insight Optimizer (Settings | General | Norton Tasks | Idle Tme Optimizer). It sounds like the defrags on your SSD were shutting down after a few seconds even before the NIS re-install, but better safe than sorry.
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MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 25.0.1 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40 * Secunia PSI v. 2.0.0.3003
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