NIS2010 17.8.0.5
Vista Home premium 32 bit with Vista SP2
If I remember correctly, NUA.exe is the "updating" process to notify users that there is a newer version of their product (in thiscase NIS 2011) (isn't NUA.exe what brings up the symantec pop up that says there is a newer version of the product?)
Found NUA.exe in C:\ProgramData\Norton
It is signed by symantec and appearantly was added to my computer 1/4/11
Not worried about this item
BUT
Not noticing I thought it was a folder, so I clicked to open it. Needless to say it is NOT a folder but a file. Now nothing appeared to happen when I clicked on it (Could be because I was logged on through a vista limited user account)
However, while nothing opened when I clicked on the file, a text document appeared to be created
"telemetry"
This is what the document says (I x'd out some parts so that if it were malicious, nobody could click on it):
stats.qalabs.symantec.com/n/xxmodule=9101&language=09. xxxxxxxx=Norton Update Agent&version=2.0.0.46&OS=6.0.6002.2.0.0&MID={46776eaf-f604-4dad-a32b-3425c5a59bad}&n=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&s=1&m=0&o=0&k=0&p=0&q=0&r=0&error=15&l=0&a=Norton Internet Security&b=17.8.0.5&c=eng-USA&f=20032477&g=20032878&h=7D6Y9VRXXXXXXi=Retail&j=1
stats.norton.com/n/p?module=9101&language =XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXNorton Update Agent&version=2.0.0.46&OS=6.0.6002.2.0.0&MID={46776eaf-f604-4dad-a32b-3425c5a59bad}&n=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=0&error=15&l=0&a=Norton Internet Security&b=17.8.0.5&c=eng-USA&f=20032477&g=20032878&h=7D6Y9VRPMKXF&i=Retail&j=1
Nothing appears to be wrong
So my main questions here are
1. What is this document tryting to say? Does the "=1" at the end mean that the NUA.exe attempted to run but failed?
2. Did I mess up my NIS 2010 by clicking on the NUA.exe?
3. And Lord I hope not, but does this mean that I need to reinstall NIS to fix anything that I may have messed up? (I really don't want to do that but would if necessary)
Thanks all