Norton anti virus won't allow installation of flash player (vista-IE)

Flash player has been on my computer for several years. Somehow it got deleted after installing a windows update today. An error mesage comes in the lower left of screen saying that this is unsafe and won't allow the download. I attempted several times, twice it said it finished the installation successfully but there was nothing downloaded when I checked my list of programs. The name was on the list(flash player) but nothing showed up on the size column ?
HELP

1. Disable your Antivirus.
2. Download the Adobe Flash Player installer directly by clicking one of the following links.
Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)
Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers)
3. Install from the download.
4. Re-enable Norton.

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