Typically, you’d want to uninstall it, which can be time-consuming if you don’t know how. Not sure if the PARALLEL team has any insights.It’s one of the great frustrations of buying a new computer when the device comes with a particular antivirus preinstalled on it, especially if it’s just the trial version that quickly expires. assumes a product engineer reads it I guess!' given Big Sur required a big architecture change for App suppliers, including Symantec. Hopefully this feedback can help Symantec home in on a fix for Mac.

I prefer option (2) above, as it retains independent Norton 360 protection on both the Mac and Win10 sides of the fence. no more Mac CPU loading by the 'prl_naptd' process and the Mac laptop fan going into 'takeoff mode'. a work around I successfully used on the earlier combinations of Mac OS/ Norton 360 Mac/ Parallels/ Win 10.

(2) Retain Norton 360 on the Mac side and Norton 360 on the Parallels/ Win 10 side and use the Parallels Hardware/ Network/ Default Adapter (Bridged Network) setting. using Parallels Hardware/ Network/ Shared Network setting, or. (1) Uninstall Norton for Mac (include using the Norton clean up tool to entirely wipe clean) and just relying on good old Mac firewall on the Mac and Norton 360 on the Parallels/ Windows 10 side. cpu loading up (prl_naptd) and the fans sounding like a jet engine, etc. I am am now running Mac OS Big Sur/ Parallels Version 16.1.1 (49141)/ Norton 360 8.6 Mac/ Norton 360 Win10īack to the the same old problem of Support saying to reinstall to fix (it doesn't). It took Symantec some time to sort out Norton 360 on the Mac for these earlier Mac OS/ Parallels versions. I am a Parallels on Mac user and have experienced similar blocking problems on earlier versions of Mac OS/ Norton 360 Mac/ Parallels when using Parallels Hardware/ Network/ Shared Network setting, which manifested itself as excessive CPU use on the Mac side (and the fan ramped up to cool the Mac). Now it works fine, however Norton does show up with its annoying messages that my computer is not protected.' Indeed I had to turn off the Norton Firewall ('Verbindungsblocker' in German = connection blocker) as well as the Button below ('Schutz vor Sicherheitslücken' = Protection against security breaches).

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