Norton 360 antivirus writes scan reports to C:\ProgramData\Norton\Antivirus\report. The directory and reports are accessible from File explorer (Windows 10). However, the Antivirus directory does not have execute permission so trying to access reports from the command line is not possible.
It is also not possible to change the permissions for the Antivirus directory to give it X permission.
C:\ProgramData\Norton>cd Antivirus\report
Access is denied.
While documenting this I did discover that the files are accessible from outside the directory, but that is very inconvenient.
C:\ProgramData\Norton>dir Antivirus\report
Volume in drive C is System
Volume Serial Number is 8E4D-A935Directory of C:\ProgramData\Norton\Antivirus\report
2025-06-08 11:57 AM .
2025-06-08 11:57 AM ..
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 7,223 AntiRansomwareShield.txt
2025-06-08 11:10 AM 10,632 aswBoot.txt
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 7,223 BehaviorShield.txt
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 7,223 BrowserProtection.txt
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 7,750 EmailShield.txt
2024-12-27 03:43 AM 0 FamilyShield.txt
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 10,416 FileSystemShield.txt
2025-06-08 01:20 PM 721 Quick Scan.txt
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 7,223 RemoteAccessShield.txt
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 7,224 SafeBrowser.txt
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 7,223 TinyFwShield.txt
2025-06-08 11:45 AM 8,825 WebShield.txt
12 File(s) 81,683 bytes
2 Dir(s) 447,634,006,016 bytes free
The directory permissions for the Norton directory:
C:\ProgramData\Norton>icacls .
. NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
BUILTIN\Administrators:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
BLAZE\julie:(I)(F)
CREATOR OWNER:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
BUILTIN\Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(RX)
BUILTIN\Users:(I)(CI)(WD,AD,WEA,WA)
I am not sure why Users is listed twice.
Now permissions for the Antivirus directory.
C:\ProgramData\Norton>icacls Antivirus
Antivirus NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(R)
Even though the administrator account has Full access, nothing I have tried from an administrator command prompt will allow me to change Antivirus user permissions to RX.
All commands result in
C:\ProgramData\Norton>icacls Antivirus /grant:r BUILTIN\Users:RX
Antivirus: Access is denied.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files
In addition, I am not sure why the report directory is under Antivirus instead of under Norton like the Temp directory.