Hello my friends. I have a question is there a way to stop norton for initiate along with my windows when I restart it or a way to desativate it when is in background? Because I tried by msconfig but when I desmark and put apply it mark itself again. And when I try to stop it by task manager as admin it don’t give me the permission to do that like ??? I know is an antivirus and this is for protection but it consume a lot in background and If I turn off the internet I am secured, right? So I can play games without much consume. The only way to stop it is crashing then you can stop the processes. All that protection and then you can cheat on it anyway
If you are trying to disable it to do something you are crippling the protection the product provides.
So if you don’t like it, simply go through the normal uninstall process, reboot, cancel your subscription or turn off auto renewal and get another product.
No, your defeating the entire point of an antivirus. And if you uninstalled Norton, Windows Defender would take over and do the exact same thing and always run at start-up and in the background. Instead you should look into Norton’s Silent/Quiet Mode where it defers tasks like scans and updates while your in a game for example to reduce resource use.
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v120728646
Another option, though I strongly advise not to do it, is to disable Auto-Protect and Firewall for the period of time you need it.
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v116457581
As for why you can’t stop/disable Norton in task manager, that is by design for every antivirus. Antivirus installs itself with SYSTEM level permissions which is even higher than Admin. It’s the same permission that core OS processes run at as well. Since it has a higher permission than you as the admin, it can ignore your command. This a good thing, otherwise any piece of malware could come along and run using your user permission level, or trick you since most users blindly click Yes on UAC prompts and they go on with their attack with nothing standing in the way if an AV is that easy to disable.
Avira the most background running👺
But Norton it’s the cheaper even with vpn included and have a reasonable policy