Thanks everyone, we will give these ideas a go. Thanks for all your replies.
Cheers Damon From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Rodemaker Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2015 11:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] A bit OT: Re: Symantec AV The default password to remove is Symantec. You can also check the SEPM to see if a password was set and edit. 1. Open the console manager 2. Click Clients 3. Select Policies tab. 4. Click on General Settings. 5. Select Security Settings tab. 6. Select Require a password to uninstall the client 7. Type the <password> in the box. 8. Click OK. I have not tried this one… HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\AV\AdministratorOnly\Security\UseVPUninstallPassword Set to 0 to disable Good Luck, Andy From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Leuthold Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 07:51 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] A bit OT: Re: Symantec AV I believe you have to call Symantec and get the CleanWipe utility. You can no longer run it silently though :(. Some competing AV vendors have ways of removing it as well.... SCEP? :) -Stephen On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:26 PM, Johns, Damon (DoJ) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Guys, any ideas on this one? Wondering if anyone knows how to or has come across a blog which goes through how to remove a password protected instance of Symantec Anti-Virus? I have a situation where some workstations were disjoined and re-joined to a domain rather than being rebuilt with a new image. Having some difficulty getting Symantec AV off the OS. Cheers Damon ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER The information in this transmission may be confidential and/or protected by legal professional privilege, and is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you are not such a person, you are warned that any disclosure, copying or dissemination of the information is unauthorised. If you have received the transmission in error, please immediately contact this office by telephone, fax or email, to inform us of the error and to enable arrangements to be made for the destruction of the transmission, or its return at our cost. No liability is accepted for any unauthorised use of the information contained in this transmission. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER The information in this transmission may be confidential and/or protected by legal professional privilege, and is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you are not such a person, you are warned that any disclosure, copying or dissemination of the information is unauthorised. If you have received the transmission in error, please immediately contact this office by telephone, fax or email, to inform us of the error and to enable arrangements to be made for the destruction of the transmission, or its return at our cost. No liability is accepted for any unauthorised use of the information contained in this transmission.
