You Created Firewall Rules

My windows 7 machine has been getting crushed for the past hour with messages being generated in my Norton security log such as: "You created firewall rules to manage how System accesses your network resources" and "You allowed System to access your network resources".  All of this is happening in the background.  I'm not doing anything at all. Last windows update was two weeks ago.  Has something unholy gotten hold of my machine?