I agree, Norton is one of the most obnoxious pieces of Malware I’ve had the misfortune to deal worth. Worse than any virus in terms of its actual impact on me.
Norton is not only junk, but very difficult junk to get rid of.
Several years ago when I had problems with it, I uninstalled and the uninstall corrupted Corel Draw (which is essential to my work) so that it would not run. It deleted a certain file. After extensive research I found A)which file and then a copy of the file, thankfully and B) an awful lot of other Corel users had also gotten shafted and couldn’t load Corel.
Half day’s work in the toilet. Now, I contact online Norton support, and forced them to connect me with a supervisor (yep, India). When I pointed out that Norton was making Corel inoperative for a LARGE number of people, he gave me the BS that Norton doesn’t support other apps (especially the ones that they corrupt). Well, we went round and round and the SOB hung up on me.
Anyone that wants to really get rid of Norton better be able to manually edit the registry. That’s what I had to do.