Turn on or turn off automatic tasks

Your Norton product runs automatic tasks as it quietly works to protect your computer. These automatic tasks include scanning for viruses, monitoring your Internet connection, downloading protection updates, and other important tasks. These activities run in the background when your computer is turned on.

If any item needs your attention, your Norton product displays a message with the information on the current status or prompts you to do something. If you do not see any messages, then your computer is protected.

You can open your Norton product at any time to see the status of your computer at a glance or to view protection details.

When a background activity is in progress, your Norton product notifies you with a message in the notification area that is located at the far-right of the task bar. You can see the results of the latest activities the next time you open the Norton product main window.

Turn on or turn off automatic tasks

1. Open your Norton device security product.

   If you see the My Norton window, next to Device Security, click Open.

2. In the Norton product main window, click Settings.

3. In the Settings window, click Tasks Scheduling.

4. In the Task Scheduling window, on the Automatic Tasks tab, do the following:

   • Check the feature that you want to run automatically.

     Check the Tasks check box to check all the features at once.

   • Uncheck the feature that you do not want to run automatically.

     Uncheck the Tasks check box to uncheck all the features at once.

5. Click Apply, and then click Close.

Need more help?

• Schedule security and performance scans

• Run custom tasks

• Set how long Norton waits to run tasks once your computer is idle