If I understand you correctly, then there are two was to remove it, from memory....
(1) (bottom lower left on task bar) click start, then click on programs... In this list you will see (startup) click startup... If a norton virius scanner is in the list, you should be able to disable it from there.....
If you have never used the dos prompt then I advise you not to do this..
(2) You will have to do this one from the DOS prompt C:\ ... You can get there from (startup, programs) click on MS-DOS prompt, make sure you exit from the windows directory one word of warning, first, make a backup copy of your autoexec.bat and save it as autoexec.sav or something that isn`t already on your c drv From the keyboard type) edit autoexec.bat From here you will be able to see if there are any lines that have reference to the norton virius scanner.... (example) C:\NORTON\ or C:\NU one of these should be present... all you really need to do here is to put an (rem) statment (example) rem C:\NORTON\ I`m not the best at explaning but I hope these examples may help, or if someone on the board can explain it better than my gibberish directions, please feel free....