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How to Uninstall and Remove Symantec AntiVirus?

by Amy Jones on Aug 10, 2010

To uninstall Symantec Antivirus, you need to close all its services, delete all files and remnants in registry. But not all of these things can be done easily, as Symantec "spreads" its traces deeply into your system. You need to be very careful when doing the removal.
First to shut it down. Like many security software, Symantec Antivirus constantly monitors the status of your system by its powerful background services that runs from every time when you start the main program. Simply disabling the main program will not get its services down. You should right click and close the tray icon, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the task manger and kill every process that is related to the program. But if you are like me, who is not familiar with all the entries of task manager but really wants to uninstall Symantec Antivirus, well, just get into Safe Mode of your system, in where neither Symantec's services nor other programs that may have files associated with it will be loaded.Read More >>



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