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You are mistaken. There are NO viruses in the wild that affect Macs.

I say again, there are NO viruses that exist that affect Macs. Windows, yes.

What error message are you getting?

Also, you can place a router, even a router with WiFi and hard point connections between your main iMac and the ISP connection and allow more than one connection. If your MacBook has WiFi built in you would be good to go.

Norton, by other people's accounts, and popular acclaim, counts a virus. It causes more problems than it solves. I know several Windows users who swear at Norton just a vehemently as do Mac people. Avoid Norton.

An intel Mac is susceptible to Windows viruses ONLY if it runs Windows in a virtulization application (Parallels or VMWare Fusion, et.al.) or under Boot Camp. In which cases you are running Windows and have all the problems of Windows.

Norton is probably still lurking in the innards of your Mac. It's hard to get rid of. Read this thread for a fuller description and additional lik to find the wee beasties.

Once you have a clean system try to upload an image. If you have no problems, you know that Norton was the root cause. If you still have a problem, let us know.

Try clearing your browser cache and/or cookies (in Firefox, go to Tools -> Clear Recent History. In Safari, go to Safari -> Reset Safari). Though if the problem is impacting both Safari and Firefox, I'd think the problem goes beyond cache and cookies....

Follow Sturner's advice to effectively get rid of Norton (since what you don't want to do is accidentally delete critical Mac system files).

A bit of a rant:

Coming from the Windows world, I'm not surprised at how many people AND enterprises still use Norton (especially when free & more effective antivirus alternatives exist).

Unfortunately, Norton is bloated, prone to false positives, prone to creating system conflicts,
...and derives its sales from "fear and panic" and a "legacy reputation", which is sadly, what seems to have caused you to buy it.

Ok, rant over.

Follow sturner's link, or google it. There's some software they have to get rid of Norton on the Mac.

Did you try a different browser or user account?

I restarted the computer and after that it let me empty the trash, so norton is now gone I hope.  I still cannot upload photos though, I tried using a different user and I still get the same error message, and can you recommend another browser besides Safari or Firefox?

Google Chrome didn't fix my picture problem either

Netscape always crashes on me, Opera didn't work, and IE is extremely slow and crashy.

Well before I download another browser, this problem came up after I installed norton.  I know its gone now, but could the program have messed with my firewall settings or something?  Is there a way I can know or fix that?

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