Indexing MyBook in Spotlight

I recently noticed that when I click in spotlight it shows that it is indexing MyBook.  It's been doing this for going on two days.  My Book was full so I clicked on deleting old backups to make room, but I've don that before without problems.  The only other variable I can think of is that I downloaded Notron
anti-virus yesterday (Xfinity's free version).  I've ejected the disk and remounted but it is still indexing.  I've successfully performed backups so it doesn't seem to be affecting that. 
any suggestions?
Joe

In addition to Kappy's instructions I would recommending using Norton's instructions for uninstalling their software. While it may not have been the cause of your problem Norton is totally unnecessary as there are no (as in NONE!!!!) viruses for OS X. Norton has a reputation of creating more problems then it solves and at the minimum is unnecessary and taking up valuable system resources. If you feel you must have some antivirus software I'd recommend ClamXav.
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