[G4] Norton is History! (Including the invisible files)

[Richard M. Kriss]

Thanks to tips from John Baltutis and Harold-P Norton is not history and no
more nag notes. It was time consuming but easy to get rig of most of the
Norton junk.  The hard part was getting rid of the invisible file in the
Trash called Norton FS Index.  Since it was invisible. the Finder did not
think there was anything in the Trash and the Finder's Empty Trash button
was dimmed. It could not be found in the terminal so the rm command would
not work.

I got lucky by messing around in the Finder's Find results by
double-clicking on the "Norton FS Index" invisible file shown to be in the
Trash.  The Finder came back with a dialog box saying the host application
could not be found (already trashed) and ask me if I wanted to try something
else.  I selected BBEdit and it opened the file.  I then used the BBEdit
Save As command and let it replace the old Norton file.  The Finder then
recognized Norton FS Index as a file and it could be trashed.


Dick