Removing norton from an imac dv running 10.3.9

I wanted to load a new viral program from my employers take home program called virex. The norton subscription expired and I never liked its constant updating. I tried deleting the folders that stood out and rebooting. I then tried to install virex and it tells me a viral program is running. Stop it and remove and reinstall. How can I track down what is still running and delete it? I tried doing a process check in a terminal window and nothing shows. So if anyone knows how to remove this so I can install the new program I'd appreciate it.

Hi Ray;
Tracking down all of the places that Symantec hid things for NAV is a royal pain. I would suggest instead that you go to the Symantec site and download one of few piece of good code they have created, the Uninstaller for Nav. Once you run that, you should be free of NAV.
Before you install Virex, you might want to do a search on this forum for it. Things for Virex don't sound very good. Virex was dropped from .Mac because of the problems it was causing.
Allan

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