Getting Rid of Norton Anti virus

I tried this posting before so far nun of the suggestions seem to work.. this time, i thought i would share some screen shots for you all to see if maybe that would help.
So t his is my current system
and in this screen in the booted up system you can see in the uper right hand corner cirled in red the Norton icon
if i download or plug in any fire wire or usb device i get this scan
as you can see in here. Norton is not in the start up
its NOWERE in the prefs
and this is the version of Norton causing all the problems
Im getting really sick of this program hiding SOMEWHERE on my computer and causing me all types of **** and problems... This thing i so rooted in my workhorse that its a virus itself!
Please for the love of GAWD somebody help me .. i dont want to have to do a complete system re intall!

You wrote this!.. DUDE. it worked FLAWLESSLY!.. I've been trying to get rid of it for a very long time and have had NO luck. I will admit to being a bit scared when it would tag files that seemed like nothing to do with Norton at first.. but I let it do its thing and after a few clicks and a reboot, I was completely free of the Evilness that was Norton..
Tonight i will be performing the Exorcisms of Norton form my Mac mini.
I cant tell you how nice it is to plug in or download something and NOT have that horrific useless scan come up!
Must say it was all so easy too with the instructions provided.. I usualy wont mess with the terminal or scrips (im an artist/weightlifter, not a programer) but the way it was layed out i had NO issues!.. just one moment of holding my breath during the reboot XD
Thank you,, a million times thank you!

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