SVCHOST trying to open Norton files and is blocked

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So, recently I've been getting messages (between 20 and 30 a day) that say that SVCHOST.EXE has been trying to open seemly random Norton files but was blocked. It only started recently, I think the day I updated Norton. Is it normal to have this happen?

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Hi lkjggfs:

 

Just wanted you to know that several people have seen the same thing happening with NIS since 09-Sep-2013 - see Call's post here.  I personally think it's related to defrags and Norton Product Tamper Protection (see my comments here) but we haven't found a definitive answer yet.  The general consensus is that it's not harmful to your system, but certainly unusual.

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MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 23.0.1 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40
HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

 

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lkjggfs wrote:

So, recently I've been getting messages (between 20 and 30 a day) that say that SVCHOST.EXE has been trying to open seemly random Norton files but was blocked. It only started recently, I think the day I updated Norton. Is it normal to have this happen?

You might like to have a read of the following post by elsewhere  -  http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Unauthorized-access-blocked-question/m-p/1021211/highlight/true#M244861

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Ok, so it's fine then. I've been running scans and saw nothing. Good. Thanks for the help.

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So, recently I've been getting messages (between 20 and 30 a day) that say that SVCHOST.EXE has been trying to open seemly random Norton files but was blocked. It only started recently, I think the day I updated Norton. Is it normal to have this happen?

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Hi lkjggfs:

 

Just wanted you to know that several people have seen the same thing happening with NIS since 09-Sep-2013 - see Call's post here.  I personally think it's related to defrags and Norton Product Tamper Protection (see my comments here) but we haven't found a definitive answer yet.  The general consensus is that it's not harmful to your system, but certainly unusual.

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MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 23.0.1 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40
HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

 

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lkjggfs wrote:

So, recently I've been getting messages (between 20 and 30 a day) that say that SVCHOST.EXE has been trying to open seemly random Norton files but was blocked. It only started recently, I think the day I updated Norton. Is it normal to have this happen?

You might like to have a read of the following post by elsewhere  -  http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Unauthorized-access-blocked-question/m-p/1021211/highlight/true#M244861

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Ok, so it's fine then. I've been running scans and saw nothing. Good. Thanks for the help.

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So, recently I've been getting messages (between 20 and 30 a day) that say that SVCHOST.EXE has been trying to open seemly random Norton files but was blocked. It only started recently, I think the day I updated Norton. Is it normal to have this happen?