Norton Full Disk Access

Uhhh…why, exactly, does Norton appear twice under “full disk access”…?

Norton should not appear anywhere. Norton software is complete garbage and is BAD for your Mac. You should absolutely go run it’s Uninstaller and get rid of it RIGHT AWAY. It is doing NOTHING of any value for you, and may make your system less stable.

Looks like twice too many to me. I’d delete the rubbish personally.

Norton has been a complete piece of shit since the late 90s. How does that company still exist?

Why do you need Norton in the first place ?

There are a lot of better alternatives if you need something it does

Trying to answer rather than just knee jerk comment, “uninstall it.”

If I had to guess, there might be separate Norton processes running that perform different functions, each of which needs permission from macOS to do their thing. The duplicate could also be a leftover from an old version. If you’re concerned, you could do a full uninstall, delete/shut off Full Disk Access on any Norton entries that remain, reboot, then reinstall Norton. If all four come back then it’s probably normal.

That all being said, macOS has a built in anti virus called XProtect. There’s no UI for it, and no notifications or really any indication that it runs, but it’s there. This makes Norton probably redundant.

From personal experience on macOS, XProtect has been fine for me, and all I add is an adblocker like uBlock or uBlock origin to my browser to get rid of the scam popups that would just try to give me a virus anyways.

The bigger question is why on earth do you have Norton installed on your Mac. That’s just Blatant blasphemy

Kill Norton

If you wish to keep Norton how is it going to hunt for viruses without full Disk Access?

Actually it appears 3…4… times

ACKHUALLY it was decent on classic Mac OS, up through OS 9. So like into eaarrrrrly 2001 or so. But they never made any good software for OS X and they still haven’t.