Slow Internet Connection due to Norton®

What are the reasons behind the slow Internet connection due to Norton?

Norton AntiVirus is one of the major security software available today. This software is designed to offer maximum security to all the users. Even when all the version of the antivirus software are good, the new version of antivirus offers more advanced features. Norton AntiVirus contains some changes to its interface, although the design is heavily evocative of the previous version. This offers better graphics security to the system. Security controls have been reduced into two sections in the main window; computer protection and network protection. You could see many controls to each of the options and by default, all are in the selected state. You could click on the name of a control, such as SONAR protection, and a pop-up appears summarizing what the feature does. The user also selects any of the options from full scan and the custom scan. Custom scan checks only selected file and the full scan option scans the entire system.

The reasons due to which Norton AntiVirus slows down the Internet connection, the symptoms and provide tips to fix the issues are:

• Reasons for slow Internet connection
• Symptoms
• Tips to fix the issues

Reasons for slow Internet connection

At times, you may face issues in accessing the Internet connection due to the Norton access block or denial in your computer. You may likely to have the block issue due to the security options for your Internet security. If you have parental controls enabled, you may have an access denial on certain websites. You may also have issues in accessing certain websites with your web browser; this may be only related to some websites you make use of. You may also face an Internet block for certain application as it tries to access the Internet.

Symptoms

If you have enabled the parental control options for your Norton Antivirus, you will have issues in accessing certain site and you will get access denial error in your computer. If it is the issue related to certain websites, as you try loading pages, your web browser may display an error message saying it cannot display the webpage. If certain applications try to open webpages or Internet, either your browser will show can’t display error message or show Internet access block for the application.

Tips to fix the issues

If you have parental controls enabled, you will need to disable it to access the Internet or to login as the necessary user to make access. If you have issues in accessing websites, you can check for your Norton Firewall settings and make necessary changes to remove the access denial. You can also check for your Internet access setting and remove blocked websites or make it to the trusted list. If you have issues with applications accessing Internet, you can select the applications to the trusted list and also to allow the access to Internet.

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