I'm using Norton 360. While all three of my browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox) were closed today, I got one of those green Norton popup notifications that the downloaded file f_00005d is safe. How odd! I had not knowingly downloaded anything. Later, I got another unexpected popup while in Chrome; it said that pepflashplayer.dll is safe.
Why is Norton suddenly giving me these notifications? It never gave me these popups before unless I had first requested a download. Are these actually malware, or is this just a new feature in Norton?
Thanks, all, for your help.