I'm really getting fed up of this to be honest.
A week or so ago I checked for updates and it found a new version. I installed it, unsure about doing so due to past problems with norton never seeming to be ready and relised, once again I had to configure all the settings for the firewall, since it never remembers.
After going through that tedius process, I notice the UI is horrible, perhaps I'd just have to get use to it, but I certainly don't like how white it is with just the yellow boxes. Anyway, not a big deal.
Then I check my logs, and it's being absolutely SPAMMED day in day out with unauthoised access block and open file. Always the same things with the actor being things like CONHOST.EXE and the target being everything in the folder from programfiles x86\norton 360\engine\21.1.0.18\ (cltLMH.exe for example...but everything). The amount of spam it gives for this seems to be everytime I'm idle for a short amount of time, then ending up with 10-20 of these things.
I also get a ton of spam from WSCStub.exe always in pairs often minutes after each other, I'm gettign spam with chrome every time I open a new tab, I get spam with "searchfilterhost.exe" and "searchprotocolhost.exe constantly and I never had ANY of this until I installed the update.
However, despite these heavy annoyances, I'm finding that sometimes norton doesn't even open at all! For example, i turned on my computer the other morning, came back an hour or two later and noticed that I couldn't open "my computer" well, I could, but it was just the loading bar at the top, taking forever. I tried to open norton, and it just wouldn't open. I restarted and checked the firewall and notice that NOTHING had been reported since the night before and the stuff from the new restart. So, those two hours that I had the computer on, was I even protected??
Yesterday, i turn n the computer and have two instances of norton running.
Today, it's been on all day, I never checked anything but noticed steam connection had dropped and logged me back in while I was in a game, so I checked norton...and I couldn't open it! I restarted, checked the firewall, and once again, NOTHING in there, as though the computer wasn't even on, so all this time was I protected???
I pay for norton, but it's not giving my peace of mind. I've had it for years and I've always had really frustrating issues with it, normally from updates.
I don't go many places on the internet, I just frequent the same few sites and forums.
I don't download anything much at all.
I ONLY have norton running, I do not have any other firewall or AV installed/running, nor windows one.
I use CCleaner every month or so (haven't recently)
I do have anti-malware installed, but the free one that only scans and not runs in the background.
Why is this happened with norton? Am I REALLY going to have to uninstall and go through the whole removal process, reinstall, update and then configure my firewall all AGAIN because of an update? It's not even giving me peace of mind due to the amount of spam in the firewall (which after googling, it seems a lot of people are getting this from the update) I'm really fed up of this and don't really want to go to a free one, but starting to feel it's much less hassle.