I purchased Norton Security Deluxe a few days ago and after installing it on both my computers I have noticed some programs would randomly freeze up/become non-responsive. They come back to live after 5 minutes or so, and even if I kill them in Task Manager and try to start them again I would have to wait the same amount of time before they pop up again. It is very frustrating as it affects almost all the programs I use including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Word, Adobe reader, and even Cortana. One thing to note is if one of the browsers freezes the other browsers become useless as well. I have disabled all the Norton extensions on my browsers but to no prevail. I have monitored Task Manager while this happens and every time the CPU, Disk, and Network usage on the frozen programs would be at 0%, with only the allocated memory not at 0; and this is not due to my computer's performance as everything is well under 50% usage when this happens.
Please help me solve this otherwise I will most certainly ask for a refund.
My PCs:
Asus Q302L: i5-4210U, 8GB RAM, 500GB disk, Win10 Home 64 bit
Desktop: i5-4690K, 16GB RAM, 1TB disk, Win10 Pro 64 bit
Thanks :)