I've had a few frustrating days with Norton.

I was very happy with BullGuard but Norton just bought them out.
One recent day Norton 360 for Gamers seamless replace BullGuard, well, almost seamlessly.

XPro+ died!
It took 3'30" to load and then froze.
It could freeze for 5 minutes or longer, act fine for minutes to seconds and lock again.

I unticked almost everything Norton had, to no avail.

It took days to locate the problem.
I was using Xara Backup to a USB drive on E:\.
I changed it to a PC hard drive and tada! all working.

I even tried copying 1GB of files to the stick and I was getting a transfer rate of 8kB/s.
So the fault seems to be with the stick.

All happened when XPro+ was updated, Norton arrived and the stick seems to have taken a dive.

Now back to setting Norton to a less lax set-up.

Acorn