[Jorge]

Jorge, the Norton warnings are being generated from the Norton Anti-Virus program itself. They aren't coming from the net.

Yes, I assumed they were coming from the Norton AntiVirus program, not the net since I have Live update option disabled.
They were just interupting me while I was online.

You can turn off the warning somewhere in the "options" area off the norton program. Its a little different for different versions of the program, but you should be able to poke around until you find something with a check-box that says words like "Warn me when my subscription is about to expire". Unclick that and you are home-free.

I didn't mind it telling me that it was about to expire...it's that it keeps warning me that it HAS ALREADY expired, is out of date and I needed "purchase" updates.

I have tried to configure the Norton Options and have unchecked every box that has to do with notifying me about updates and I still get the stupid warnings.

But what really ticked me off is the program generating phoney virus files and producing these pop-up alarms...telling me that it has detected files infected with viruses on my computer but wasn't able to neutralize them because my Norton Antivirus program was not up to date.

Again, So I located and checked out the files that Norton was warning me about...and I found they contained no virus..in fact... contained no data at all. Nothing. They were always empty files.
This is simply a deceptive business practice designed to scare you into purchasing more updates.

[meyer]

But what really ticked me off is the program generating phoney virus files and producing these pop-up alarms...telling me that it has detected files infected with viruses on my computer but wasn't able to neutralize them because my Norton Antivirus program was not up to date.

Producing phony virus files?? I apologize but I have trouble believing that Norton would do that. I would contact them if I were you, but I seriously doubt if a reasonably reputable company like Norton would do that.