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Norton Antivirus kills another recording !

Posted by Bambi B on May 14, 2008 at 10:43:42:

PHOTO: My low budget 5'X 8' recording studio, an alcove in the living room. Not visible is the Kawai KG-5C (6'8") and Oktava MC012 microphones. The monitoring amplifier is a 1971 Marantz 2235 receiver, headphones are Sennheiser HD280, power conditioner is a 6.5A Oneac isolation transformer. NEC 3V monitor is from 1993!
Mates,
I have a Dell Pentium 750 running Windows 98 with an M-Audio 2496 Audiophile sound card and 40 and 80GB HDs I use for recording. Sources are either a Yamaha S90 syntheiser or Oktava MC012 mics > Peavey VMP2 tube mic pre> M-Audio 2496. Software is Cakewalk Home Studio 2 XL.
The results with this setup have been quite good- the M-Audio card is amazing for $100, but try as I might, the residual Norton Antivirus on this computer has killed another recording. It insists on intrusive random messages to renew the subscription and starts virus scans in the middle of work. It once stopped a recording, announcing, "an attempt has been made to access your computer" -except this computer has not been connected to the Internet for three years. I can't seem to remove the Norton and turning it off is limited to 15 days- it insists on resurrecting itself to destroy my recordings.
I don't want to start over with the HD- it would take two days- but what can I do to safely remove Norton?
And, what is the best alternative to Norton?
Also, my Dell 2.4 Ghz uses Norton- and as I'm fed up with what seems to be serious resources hogging, what are you happy with for virus protection? I used Mcafee a long while and never had the fuss of intrusiveness I experience with Norton.
TA!
Cheers,
Bambi B