![]() ![]() ![]() The Norton and LifeLock Brands are part of NortonLifeLock Inc. HP Pavilion dv6835ca * 32-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox ESR v52.9.0 * Malwarebytes Premium v3.-1.0.365ĭell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v21H2 build 19044.1645 * Firefox v100.0.0 * Microsoft Defender v.5-0.5 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.5.9.198- * Macrium Reflect Free v I would be willing to reconsider my decision to stop using NortonLifeLock products if they ever released a reasonably priced security product for my Win 10 machine that didn't have all this unnecessary bloatware and wasn't spamming my system with pop-up ads urging me to purchase additional NortonLifeLock services, but I'm afraid those days are long gone. I used legacy Norton products on my (now retired and rarely used) Vista SP2 laptop for over a decade and I've always been a fan of the Norton Smart Firewall. That includes the purchase of Avast for over $8 Billion USD in 2021, the same antivirus company that was publicly shamed after they were caught selling customer data to large corporate clients like Home Depot, Google, Microsoft and Pepsi through Avast’s subsidiary company Jumpshot (see the Jan 2020 PC Magazine article Avast to End Browser Data Harvesting, Terminates Jumpshot). from other companies instead of rebuilding their own internal R&D department. The release notes for the latest Norton v22.22.4.11 products mention that users now have the option to turn off the new Software Updater feature, so kudos to Norton for at least realizing that many of their users don't want these unnecessary features running on their system.Īfter parent company Symantec was sold to Broadcom in 2019 it was probably inevitable that NortonLifeLock would start acquiring technology for "bells and whistles" like Norton Smart Scan, Norton Software Updater, etc. I've posted several times about this (see my Remove Norton Crypto From Antivirus Products in the Product Suggestions board that includes a link to the Verge article Here’s the Truth About the Crypto Miner That Comes With Norton Antivirus for one example) but Norton continues to add more and more bloatware to their core security product. PC_confused mentioned the bloat in current Norton 360 products in their original post so I didn't think it was necessary to expand, but I agree with your concerns, and when I purchased a new Win 10 laptop in 2019 I decided not to install a newer Norton v22.22.x product because of this very issue.
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