Unexpected Activity from Norton

Three days ago I got a popup from K-Lite Codecs asking me to run an update. This is not normal behavior for K-Lite, so I ignored it. The next day when I woke up there was an unfamiliar Norton screen on my computer telling me I needed to restart in order to activate my service. I had already had service for 30 days on this new hard drive through Century Link. NOTE that it didn't say to update, but to activate. I explored Norton by opening it from my task manager, and it DID say it needed to install an update...so I ran it. When it rebooted, there was a new program with a check-mark icon on my computer called something like, "Norton Update Installer."

After doing that, I got a Windows Not Genuine popup followed closely behind by another Norton Popup and believed I was infected. I ran all the malware programs suggested for this virus from safe mode, and when that didn't work, (I was still getting popups), I recovered to an earlier date. When I re-opened Windows I was still getting "windows not genuine, you may have been the victim of a scam." Within seconds, my screen went black and I couldn't click on validate or anything else. Thus, I ended up contacting Windows by phone and working through the fact that by now, my computer wouldn't start into anything but safe mode, and together we finally got it to verify my software key.

Unfortunately, after doing the recovery, Norton wasn't working AT ALL...(It showed up in programs, but would not activate at start-up). Neither would Windows Defender! I used the Norton Removal tool and reinstalled Norton, but it still wasn't running. I employed Norton Power Eraser and ran a complete scan. It found a test.exe in my Spybot folder, and had it removed.  Norton began running then, and I ran a complete scan. It only found 2 cookies. This morning when I woke up, I had yet another popup from Norton saying that there was an error applying a patch. The Screen again looks suspicious, as does the icon in the task bar. I am including images for the last two events. Am I experiencing a psuedo program or WHAT?

 

8-6-15 Error applying patch.PNGThe arrow pointing down is the icon for the above screen

8-6-15 What the arrow looks like in task bar.PNG

Help will be greatly appreciated.

Chris