Task manager is showing me that norton is using an excessive amount of the disk (about 87 mb/s) at all times. This is slowing down most of my application startup times including the windows file explorer application. I have already run a full system scan using norton (took about 20 minutes and came up clean for malware) and restarted my computer many times since the last windows update (more than 5). I do not see a way that norton is still going through all of the windows update files or is still actively scanning a good portion of the system at all times, since I could not have installed that much new software since the scans. The same thing is also happening on my Surface Pro 6. Any solutions will be a great help.
I have the exact same problem every 3 to 5 months and it started again last night (Dec1). The disk is constantly pegged at 1.0 to 1.9 mb/s and its Norton.exe every time. No matter what you do it will not stop including silent mode, disable auto protect, disable firewall, running a full screen game or even shutting down Norton via windows task manager (which does nothing to stop it). I do not allow background tasks to be run so it is not that. I am not mining for crypto either. The amount of disk activity acts as if Norton is defragging the drive regardless of what I do which it is not. Rebooting the machine alleviates the process for 2 minutes and then it starts again as if its a cron job. I run a full system scan which takes 3x more time to do and it finds nothing wrong. This makes by PC unusable for anything. The only thing that stops this from happening for the last two times this happened is to uninstall and reinstall Norton. I am considering changing to another method to protect my computer if this is not addressed.