I switched back to norton in 2009 after hating it for being bloatware for years.....I thought it was phenomenal..used absolutely no resources.....even detected my fios network boxes properly which no other firewall did at the time...saved me from many viruses. ..in 2010 norton even took my advice from the forums and added info tto he main info history for stealth blocked ports. when closing a p2p program, such as utorrent or others, many computers still try to connect to you. norton was showing the ips on the main page, say if they were portforwared through your router, but not the port numbers. and it would be too tedious to click on each one there was so many, to see if it was suspicious or not. if you could see the port you would know which program it was from. well in 2010 norton added that info to the main view and i loved them for it.
now i don't even see that feature in hisotry anymore and the the idle scans are becoming annoying,there is so much disk activity its ridiculous! I don't know what will kill my hdd first...norton idle scans or a virus!!! i've seen numerous users complain about this issue...and nortons response is "its for your own good" and we can't shut it off.
I also keep asking if its normal for norton to show cpu usage in the performance monitor when idle.....but shows no activity when clicking the mouse over the spikes. only started noticing this with 2013. and thats a serious red flag with this program to me.
and this facebook thing? people are getting hacked everyday through facebook. facebook is the most dangerous site on the web right now. and i thought NIS was gonna have extra facebook protection? but it looks like its just an option to share pages on the toolbar lmao. ??
and after all that idle scanning and nis thrashing my hdd.....machines on my network got so crippled this christmas I had to reformat. norton or malwarebyts or a couple other free scans i ran found nothing.
I get no help on the forums anymore....norton did not protect my pc, and i dont' trust the way it performs anymore. I think norton is a big target now and forum users seem really bitter.