Norton Sucks.
DL Malwarebytes and install it (free version)... Run that through it and see.
If you get a lot, Kaspersky's AVPTool (RTFM) or EmsiSoft's EEK (both are cleanup engines) might find even more.
And if that's the case, ditch Norton and use Kaspersky's AntiVirus (not Internet Security), or Eset's Nod32 Anti-virus.
Another angle - I am told the latest KBs from MS have implemented the same PhoneHome stuff into 7 as is in Win10... I wonder if the bad behavior coincides with a particular Update session...
[[Another angle - I am told the latest KBs from MS have implemented the same PhoneHome stuff into 7 as is in Win10... ]]
Yeah see that’s what I wondered as well- like the poster above said ,they had autoupdates turned off and MS downloaded stuff to their computer anyways
It almost acts like a phone home thing- it will start, with monitor still in sleep mode , run for a bit, then shut back down- Suspicious to say the least- I wouldn’t even know where to look except at recent updates- I don’t have autoupdates enabled- an I stopped the windows 10 nag update when I did the update awhile ago- they snuck in the nag screen update- had to learn how to uninstall it and hide the update from showing anymore-
We used to worry about hackers ruining our computing experience, now it seems like MS is becoming a bunch of hackers themselves- changing settings in our computers without our permission or knowledge