TURN OFF THE SECURITY FEATURE IN THE BROWSER!
Oh, yeah, right. That's a great idea.
The way Google products work, the AV likely thought it was spyware.
I don’t know anybody who uses Symantec antivirus.
the simplest and most effective thing one can do to near-bullet-proof protect ANY Windows system, is to create two accounts: one is a normal administrative account that is always created by default, the other is a Limited User account. Do your work in the Limited User account and go to the administrative account only to add, delete, update programs and printers ... turn off all updates and remove and turn off all antivirus programs ... you’ll have the most stable possible windows system that way ...
Symantec IS a virus unto itself. So is McAfee. Ever try to uninstall these programs? They make you download uninstall software that you run to uninstall the main app. Then you have to uninstall the uninstall software.
Either Microsoft or Brave fixed it so the Brave browser no longer works on Windows 7. So I’ve moved back to Firefox until I can get something else going. I tried Chrome, but the Google virus/spyware drove me away. (Yes, I know Brave was basically just a skin for Chrome, but at least they weren’t as blatant.)
I stopped using Norton after Peter Norton sold his business to Symantec.
Is it a mistake to sign on with Edge (beta), when my paid Malwarebytes has kept my laptop going like the Energizer Bunny?
The problem is that Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) invasively goes into the memory of every running app on your PC and modifies them into insert shims to intercept system calls. This was a dumb design choice, because Microsoft has special hooks inside the kernel to intercept system calls for anti-virus vendors so they don’t have to hack running apps like that.
The shimming of the user mode memory of an app is what viruses do to steal your data. My own commercial app checks for such shims and refuses to run if they are detected. This is similar to what Mictosoft Code Integrity does for their own system apps and DLLs. I had to rewrite my code to specifically detect SEP to avoid the false tamper alerts.
Bottom line: SEP is badly designed and should be avoided. (I recommend switching to Kaspersky, which has an excellent virus detection rate and does not tamper with your apps.)
Maybe it’s time for me to switch to McAfee.