My new Macbook Pro 16 started shutting itself down after getting super hot and the fans going full blast whenever I tried to reboot it. I recently installed Norton 360 on it. I had only cold booted with it and had no problems. After experimenting with it for several hours, I could only cold boot from a full shutdown and never do a warm reboot. The warm reboot shutdown happened about 4 times in a row. Finally, I loaded Activity Monitor and it showed Norton pushing the processor to like 297% use as all of the applications were loading (during a cold boot).
I immediately uninstalled Norton completely, and rebooting has gone back to normal, no super heating and no crashes.
Just a warning to folks out there. I have used BitDefender and never had a problem like that, though it's Safe Files feature has gotten too aggressive in stopping some legitimate apps from running.
I immediately uninstalled Norton completely, and rebooting has gone back to normal, no super heating and no crashes.
Just a warning to folks out there. I have used BitDefender and never had a problem like that, though it's Safe Files feature has gotten too aggressive in stopping some legitimate apps from running.