Norton 360 causes a failure of a System Restore operation

When I tried to do a system restore recently, it ended up with a message that 'an unspecified error ocurred using System Restore'.

 

So I rebooted, and entered the WinRE environment and from there, with N 360 not running, the operation succeded.

 

After rebooting, N360 showed this error:

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which confirms my belief that N 360 is the root cause orf the problem.

 

Effectively disabling using System Restore from a normal user session in Windows is not acceptable behavior for a reputable Windows application.

 

You should investigate this, and either - if Tamper Protection causes this - ammend the Help and Support to advise users to disable it before using System Restore, or if it fails in every case, do something about it, and do it fast.