Norton prevents unmounting/ejecting USB

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I am using Norton 360 for gamers.

- I have disabled scanning of removable drives

- Also I have disabled scanning of USB devices

Yet Norton won't allow me to eject USB hard drive. No matter what I do.

I know for a fact it is Norton, because I have tested several antivirus vendors lately.

- Avast doesn't do that

- Also with F-Secure, McAfee, Bitdefender and just using plain Windows Defender - no problems.

While using any of those I can eject my USB hard drives within 5 mins.

When Norton is running, I am trying, and trying and trying... it takes often more than 30-40 mins.

I have also tested different drives and different USB ports.

I know there are ways to expedite that but I don't want to risk losing data and because this is clearly a Norton problem.

I even tried turning auto protect etc. all OFF, no help.

When I restore a system image with any of those other antivirus programs installed, the issue is gone.

I would like to stick with Norton, so it would be interesting to know why Norton is so persistant with this, thank you.

 

 

 

 

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Because there is no option to delete my post, I will just reply to myself.

This problem is solved, kind of. For some reason it started working just fine, the problem is gone. And I have absolutely no idea how or why, was it some Windows or Norton update that fixed it or what.

But anyway, I'm happy that the issue is gone.