Hello.
I have had Norton Internet Security on my Computer (HP Envy running Windows 8.1) for about 3 years.
I have a 700GB HDD which over those years I noticed was filling up slowly. About half a year ago I noticed that it was full, so I uninstalled some stuff and dumped some files, freeing up about 20GB. A week later, It was full again, so I deleted some more files.
I then noticed that my disk drive was losing free space by the hour even though I wasn't doing anything to use it. I had not run a defrag in a while so I ran the Norton disk cleanup and it freed up a ton of space (500GB)... so I left it alone until a couple days ago.
I got low disk messages from my computer and saw that I once again had no disk space... so I deleted some big files and then watched as the disk space that I had freed up disappeared at a rate of about 10GB/hour.
I used WinDirState and found that almost 90% of my disk drive was used up by a folder called Norton in ProgramData, where several folders down I found an ErrDir folder containing a subfolder called Incoming, which had 50,000 Error Files taking up about 600GB of disk.
I deleted this folder and went to sleep thinking that I would delete any new error logs that showed until I found a solution here.
Next morning, I wake up and see that Norton is eating up my disk drive at about 50GB/hour with its error logs AND it had recreated the folder I deleted and changed the permissions so that I as Administrator had no privlidges and could not delete the folder or its parent folders and I could not do anything to it permission wise.
My disk usage was about 100% as Norton is constantly writing to the disk and I my computer was brought to a crawl. I managed to download and install Norton Remover before my disk filled up and removed/reinstalled Norton.
After the reinstall and restart: Space was freed up and Norton was reinstalled, but once again, it was eating up my disk with its logs even faster and I could not delete them on Admin account.
I finally outright removed Norton Internet Security with Norton Remover and am now here asking this question.
It feels like every time I try to stop it, I just make it angry :P