The challenge i had was that on several clients it seemed Symantec had a different IdentifyingNumber (IN), which is the GUID used by Windows to identify the product.Īs there were only 7 client machines i did a lot more of this manually than perhaps i needed to.įirstly i found the right IdentifyingNumbe r from each PC. I already had the machines on the network configured for PowerShell Remoting, so connecting to them was not a challenge. There are various ways of course to execute a command on a remote machine, you can use PSTools’, PSExec for example, but i prefer to use PowerShell where i can.

I did a lot of searching around for a reliable solution, most of which came back to using MSIEXEC from a command line. It was a small SEPM deployment, only 7 clients and a server but i was surprised to be reminded that SEPM has no ‘uninstall’ tool from their console. please do NOT point me to the method to manually uninstall the program because I have 30 PCs to perform this on, and that would not be an efficient use of my time.Finally moving my last client from Symantec SEPM to Trend Micros WFBS Hosted platform. Hopefully, technical solutions monitors these posts and will respond in kind. What I apparently need is Symantec Support to send me a copy of CleanWipe so that I can completely uninstall SAV. Seems like nobody wants to listen to my issue, and we are virtually being held hostage here with this old, outdated program. around in circles, and I'm still no further ahead. The support site will not let me open a ticket because I don't have a support contract. They emailed and said open a ticket with support. The only place I was able to open a ticket was sales/service. We do NOT have a current support contract with Symantec, so I am being refused help through the regular channels. I have already tried 'symantec' and a host of others that I've found in the forums. The password has been set at sometime in the past, and I am unable to retrieve it.

It is constantly asking me for a password to uninstall, even though I have already disabled the user security for password in the System Center Console. I am UNABLE to uninstall Symantec Antivirus Corporate 10.1. I have taken over the IT Administration at my company, and am currently working to bring all of our PCs into line with standard, updated software.

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