- Average user rating: 1.5 stars out of 452 reviews Back to product review
- My rating: 0 stars
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
1.0 stars
"ccSvcHst.exe uses >95% of CPU and runs continually for more than 30 minutes."
Pros: Many nice features
Cons: It is a memory hog; especially the ccSvcHst.exe program!
Summary: The problem is: ccSvcHst.exe uses >95% of the CPU and runs continually for more than 30 minutes. This means that when my computer is booted-up and all other programs have completed loading; it will continue running for 30 minutes (or more) while using more than 95% of my CPU capacity making it (useless) for running other programs. I might have been able to LIVE with the problem if I could pause the program however, this program DOES NOT have a way to pause it!
There is obviously a deficiency in the design of the program. All of the technical suggestions and steps from Symantec technicians have proven to be fruitless! Check the customer comments regarding this program at CNET.com (http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-security-and-firewall/norton-360/4852-3667_7-32330411.html?tag=uoavrg) and you will find that it has a satisfaction rating of ONLY 49.9% (from 105 users). That's VERY bad for a product that should have been rated at more that 90%!
I believe my only recourse at this time is to remove Norton 360 from my computer and purchase another computer security program (non-Symantec). I purchased this program (in good faith) based on my previous (positive) experiences with Norton software and I am significantly disappointed with the Norton 360 product. Norton 360 has not lived-up to the performance lauded for it!
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There is something wornd with your computer, or it has a 100Mhz processor, I have 360 3.0 (2.0 used the same resources I checked) max 15% od dual core 1.66GHZ intel, oh by the way im also running a scan while reporting this.
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I have been at the point of buying a new PC until I started reading the reviews. My PC is useless for at least 45 minutes and then performance for all applications is sub-par now.
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