Norton Anti-Virus is designed to ensure computer security, but can often interfere with the installation of a program or application. To continue to install the security you need, you just need to suspend protection. Let's figure out how to disable the Norton antivirus. This can help in cases where it was installed by accident.
Why disable antivirus?
The need to disable Norton Antivirus can arise for various reasons:
- Anti-Virus does not allow you to delete unnecessary system files or make any changes to the registry.
- Norton does not allow you to install any necessary program, game or add-on for your browser.
- This anti-virus software accidentally got into the operating system, and it must be removed.
- Norton does not allow you to start system recovery.
These are just some of the reasons why a user wants to remove or disable Norton antivirus. As a rule, if you decide to remove the software from Simantek, you first need to complete its process, and then only uninstall through the control panel. You can complete the current process through the task manager.
Two ways to disable Norton antivirus
To temporarily suspend protection or disable it completely, you will not need particularly complicated manipulations. There are several methods to disable antivirus:
- through the task manager;
- through the Norton itself.
You can disable protection both completely and partially disable a number of anti-virus software elements.
In order to disable the Norton antivirus on Windows 10, as on any other version of the operating system, you can simply start the task manager and complete the program process. Or you can pause the antivirus directly in its settings.
How to disable Norton antivirus?
You can temporarily disable the program by simply clicking on its icon in the taskbar with the right mouse button, and select "Turn off automatic protection" in the menu that appears. Norton will prompt you to choose for how long it should be turned off. After that, the anti-virus application will resume if you did not delete it.
If you need to disable only some elements of the antivirus, then you will need to get into the software settings. To do this, you will have to follow these steps:
- Open the main window of Norton Antivirus.
- Go to the item with the settings.
- We go to the section with real-time protection settings.
- Disable all elements of the antivirus or only those that are necessary.
- In order to save the selected parameters, click on “Apply”.
- We choose for what time we want to suspend the work of Norton and its elements.
- Confirm the selection and close the antivirus window.
Remember that while antivirus software is completely or partially disabled, you should carefully download files from the Internet or install hacked programs of unknown origin. If you are sure that you are installing “clean” software on your computer, add the game or program to the antivirus exceptions so that Norton does not perceive this as a danger.