Getting rid of Norton. For good!

I put Norton Antivirus on my Mac Pro about a year ago. I quickly realized its uselessness and removed it. I have recently upgraded to Leopard and there are still options for Norton when I right click! How do I get this to go away? Spotlight shows nothing when I search for any hint of the program.

Go to the Symantec web site, and under support for Norton Antivirus for Macintosh do a search for "uninstall". They have an uninstaller you can download and run which seems to work.
--Bob

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