The other day I upgraded to OSX 10.9. Now I get a pop-up from SymUIAgent to enter password. Why?

I don't know if it was the OSX update or a simultaneous Norton update that brought this on. But every Firewall dialog asking to block or allow connections are followed by a pop-up from SymUIAgent to enter my system password or cancel.

I think it is highly annoying. I found a post from August 2012 from a user with identical problem. No response to his post and no help to be found. 

How do I make it stop? 

I have the exact same issue... but only on one of the two macbooks I have running NIS 5.6 and OS X 10.9. Mystery to me.