WARNING: RemoveSymantecMacFiles does not target a single Symantec product. It removes all files and folders for ALL Symantec and Norton products for Mac, including any contents you have created yourself within those folders.
Download the SymantecUninstaller for Mac file, find it in your Downloads folder (go to Finder Downloads) and then double-click it to unzip the Symantec Uninstaller. Click on the Symantec Uninstaller to initiate it. Click Open to start the Symantec Uninstaller; Click Uninstall; Confirm by clicking Uninstall; Enter your machine's credentials to. Norton AntiVirus is an anti-virus or anti-malware software product, developed and distributed by NortonLifeLock since 1991 as part of its Norton family of computer security products. It uses signatures and heuristics to identify viruses.Other features included in it are e-mail spam filtering and phishing protection. Symantec distributes the product as a download, a box copy, and as OEM software.
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To download and run RemoveSymantecMacFiles:
Symantec Mac Removal Tool
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SymantecRemovalTool (SymantecRemovalTool.zip) is a modification to RemoveSymantecMacFiles, designed to be pushed out using customer's choice of remote deployment tool. It requires no user input when running as root. As with RemoveSymantecMacFiles, all files and folders that Symantec Mac products have created will be removed; therefore, you will lose all files that reside in those folders, including any that you have created manually. For more information, please see the readme file included with the SymantecRemovalTool download. Symantec provides support for SymantecRemovalTool/RemoveSymantecMacFiles only when running them locally; it is the customer's responsibility to integrate SymantecRemovalTool with Apple Remote Desktop or other remote deployment tools.
Both of these tools require no arguments. Any arguments they receive are each assumed to be potential installation points for Symantec products. Remote deployment solutions (Casper, JAMF, et al) that automatically populate shell script arguments ($1, $2, etc) with other data may cause the Symantec tool to throw an error. To work around this, the remote deployment solution may be configured to call first a dummy script that in turn calls the removal tool without any extra arguments.
Symantec Uninstaller Windows
Both of these tools will not silently remove the new *.systemextension type in macOS 10.15 Catalina. A local user must provide administrative credentials for this step when the script moves the Symantec application to the Trash.
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