I keep getting a Norton virus popup. I have long ago erased Norton from my system and anything else Symantec as well. I do not touch the popup but do shut down everything else I have running and do a virus scan using Malwarebytes. It inevitably finds one virus and elimnates it and the Norton popup disappears. That is also what happens when I get the obvious fake virus alerts. I don’t know if it is Norton or a disguise but I don’t use Norton and have to assume anything apparently from Norton is a virus. For a long time I kept getting a MSFT nagger to assent to MSFT inspecting my system and always declined and the MSFT popup would go away, Then one day it didn’t go away and my system files got corrupted. I had all legitimately purchased and licensed software but apparently MSFT got miffed because I wouldn’t give it permission to do what it does anyway. No more MSFT anything for me. So, in my experience both Norton and Microsoft are viruses.
I agree, Norton is one of the most obnoxious pieces of Malware I’ve had the misfortune to deal worth. Worse than any virus in terms of its actual impact on me.