I have already tried a Restart, Shutdown (wait 10 minutes and then turn PC back on - aka.
No other messages of any kind from NORTON or elsewhere have appeared during this time. My PC is still responsive and not slow to use, I have a 'green' checkmark in my NORTON icon in my Systray. Then this cycle repeats itself all over again.
Lastly, in screen-grab 'WTM_3.pdf', I have seen the 3rd instance under my username disappear entirely and then it comes back seconds later. Then seconds later it looks like the one shown in 'WTM_2.pdf' where the one entry under my username has the description go blank. The first screen-grab 'WTM_1.pdf' shows all 3 occurrences of NORTONSECURITY.EXE where the CPU and DESCRIPTION columns are populated. When I open TASK MANAGER -> PROCESSES (show processes from all users), I have 3 instances of NORTONSECURITY.EXE running, 2 under the username of myself and the 3rd under SYSTEM. I am not though getting the Desktop Icons flashing in my instance. I too am having this behavior where I see a constant spinning circle on my cursor along with CPU Usage continually fluctuating.which all began as of this morning. Now that I'm seeing more comments - now I figure it is time for me to make a post on this as it doesn't seem I'm alone on this one. Since I've have updates paused (since Sunday) and given that rapidly opening Norton and closing temporarily fixes the issue, it really seems to be pointing to a Norton issue
I also noticed if I reboot my system and watch the CPU usage in the task manager, the issue doesn't start until Norton starts after reboot.Įverything is pointing to this being the result of a Norton live update in the last 24 hrs, or Norton is not playing well with some sort of Windows update in the last 24 hrs. If you open Norton by clicking on the desktop icon again, it will start up with the CPU usage problems again. You need to close the Norton rapidly or it will continue to crunch the CPU. A few times after opening Chrome, Norton statred acting up, and as soon as I click on the icon and rapidly close it appears to fix the issue. Most times as soon as I close it the CPU usage and flashing cursor goes away. I've found that while watching my CPU usage on the task manager, I can open Norton 360 by clicking on the desktop icon, and as soon as it opens I immediately close it. I think I've sort of found a not so great work around that I'll continue to test.
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