How to Completely Uninstall Norton/Symantec Products


   Information
This tutorial will guide you through removing Norton/Symantec products products completely from your machine, either so you may reinstall it or make sure everything is cleaned up to move to a new anti-virus.

This guide assumes you have no antivirus protection installed at the moment. If you do, disable it during this guide as it may interfere with this procedure.

   Warning
Always Uninstall Norton/Symantec products the proper way through Control Panel - Uninstall A Program when possible.

Then continue to this method. If the uninstaller fails for whatever reason, then attempt this method.





1.) First, download the Norton/Symantec removal tool here:
2.) Close all programs. Open the file you just downloaded.

3.) The utility opens, Choose next to uninstall like in the picture below.
4.) Agree to the license agreement. Click next.
5.) You will be prompted by a captcha in order to continue, you must fill in the letters displayed, then click next. See Example Image below:
6.) All Norton/Symantec programs will start to be removed. During the process you will see this image:
7.) Choose finish when the process completes, and restart the PC.

8.) You're finished!