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Originally Posted by dAvenue
Moving terabytes 
I finally discovered what caused my iMac to randomly freeze. And it was Norton  Apparently, the idle-scan feature sucked up the last bit of available resources if another resource intensive process was active such as Time Machine  . I decided to disable idle-scanning because backups are much more important to me.  |
Norton is a ridiculous resource hog... I get rid of it and install AVG free in lieu of Norton on any machine I encounter.
What's sad is I run multiple machines at home and at the office, and the ones that are the completely stable 100% of the time are the two with NO anti-virus protection at all. I use an enterprise level hardware firewall that does just fine. I keep AV protection on a few machines just in case because they contain critical data.