Norton Live Update after SMC Firmware Update

It freezes my screen when it's trying to "update everything" (the cursor still moves but nothing can be clicked). alt + apple + esc doesn't bring up the force quit dialog, i have to manually press the power button to shut it off.
does it have anything to do with disk repair permission or something?
i don't have any trouble with boot and reboot though

Hi Resno,
Click the link and you'll be taken to MacFixIt, where you'll read that Symantec are aware of the crashing problem, and how they are in the process of fixing it. http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060517112611193&query=norton
With regards to anti-Nortoners (whose comments are actually amusing !), if Symantec is unfit for Macs, then why in the previous issue of MacFormat magazine, did they have a competition to win 1 of 20 copies of Norton AV 10 ? Also, why, in this month's MacFormat,the UK's best-selling Mac magazine, have they given a decent write-up about Norton AV ? A specialist Mac magazine favoring a, as what some have called, a 'virus' ?!
We are all entitled to an opinion and I am not having-a-go at people who dislike Symantec. However, Resno has a point when he queries if the anti-Norton brigade have actually installed and tried Norton AV, rather than just reading critisisms about it.
Once again, though, to all who hate Norton, with your slanderous attacks on the product, I would like you to know that your crazy comments bring a smile to my otherwise miserable face !
iMacIntel Mac OS X (10.4.6) 20-inch:2GHz Intel Core Duo, 1GB RAM.

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