Flash Player Update Blocked by Norton

Norton says it found Trojan.Gen.2 in the update file.
What to do?

Hi macandrew,
Many people come here saying "Safari is not running" when in fact Safari is running because they've only closed the browser and don't actually quit out of Safari.  The previous response usually answers their question.  There's a possibility that some other process is being identified to the installer as being a Safari process.  You can either launch Activity Monitor and look for such a process If it's running, terminate it, or restart your machine ensuring no apps that may use Flash Player are started automatically upon log on and install Flash Player.  This ensures nothing is running that will interfere with the installation.
Maria

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