This is my first message on this forum so if I have made an error in how or where I placed it I could use some corrective advice. For sometime I have known that Norton regularly blocks three programs that are outbound from my computer. These are Windows programs called; svchost.exe, conhost.exe, and C:\Windows\syswow64\wbem\wmiprvse.exe. I have not understood what was going on and could not decide if it was OK or not. Past communications with Norton Support were of no help. Now I find that all these programs are in fact supposed to be there for correct operation of my Windows 7. I figured I needed to make a change in the Firewall settings. But I can find only the conhost.exe which I changed to allow. Now it seems even that may have been unnecessary and ill advised. However, I cannot change it back to "auto" as it was because the only options are block, unblock, and custom, which is a scary mess. So do I need to make changes in Norton to allow these processes to continue unblocked or am I misinterpreting what blocked means on my security history? Plus if it was Ok as it was do I now need to do something special to get the svchost.exe back to auto?
