Download Symantec Uninstaller For Mac
This document is an overview of software support utilities used by the Service Desk and Software Support groups.
Unsupported SoftwareNote: Symantec for students was discontinued on Saturday, December 21st, 2019. Students should uninstall Symantec, and visit CUIT's Malwarebytes for Students page to download our new endpoint security protection software. Faculty and Staff: The Symantec installer was created for students' personal workstations and laptops.
The tools in this document are not developed or supported by DoIT. The University of Wisconsin is not liable for any loss of data resulting from use of these tools. Please make sure that your data is backed up. If you are having a computer problem that you are unable to resolve, Get Help from DoIT.
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- Looks like there's a tool that will completely uninstall Symantec software from your Mac. This page describes how it works. Here's the direct download link to RemoveSymantecMacFiles.zip. In case the first link goes away, the easiest way to run it is to control-click on the download, choose 'Open with.' - 'Terminal' and follow the instructions.
Virus Protection
The UW-Madison licensed Symantec Endpoint Protection can be downloaded for use on personal computers through the Campus Software Library. Downloads for IT administrative staff are available at https://software.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/security/itadmin.cgi. Mac app store download numbers. SEP offers active threat protection as well as a full virus scan.
Antivirus Removal
| Symantec Cleanwipe | This utility will completely remove all Symantec antivirus products for Windows. | Download |
| Symantec Uninstaller (Mac) | This utility will completely remove Symantec Endpoint Protection for Mac. | Download |
| McAfee Consumer Product Removal | This tool completely removes McAfee antivirus products for Windows. | Download |
| AVG Remover Tool | This tool completely removes AVG Antivirus for Windows. | Download |
Malware Removal (Windows)
| RKill | Rkill is a small, freeware and portable tool designed to terminate active malware processes allowing you to use the removal tools listed below. During virus removal, run RKill after each boot. | Download |
| ADW Cleaner | AdwCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP) from your computer. A common tactic among freeware publishers is to offer their products for free, but bundle them with PUPs in order to earn revenue. This tool will help you remove these types of programs. AdwCleaner also removes browser hijacking settings and extensions, and allows you to view results and choose which files to remove. | Download |
| SUPERAntiSpyware | SUPERAntiSpyware is an application which can detect and remove spyware, adware, trojan horses, rogue security software, computer worms, rootkits, parasites and other potentially harmful software applications. | Download |
| TDSSKiller | A rootkit for Windows systems is a program that penetrates into the system and intercepts the system functions (Windows API). It can effectively hide its presence by intercepting and modifying low-level API functions. Moreover it can hide the presence of particular processes, folders, files and registry keys. Some rootkits install its own drivers and services in the system (they also remain invisible). TDSSKiller, developed by Kaspersky lab, is designed to identify and remove rootkits. | Download |
| Bitdefender | Bitdefender Adware Removal Tool finds and removes Mac malware including Genieo. Bitfender also offers a full antivirus program for Mac and PC. | Download |
Cleanup Tools (Windows)
| Revo Uninstaller | Revo Uninstaller is made to uninstall software that you are unable to uninstall from 'Add or Remove Programs' Control Panel applet. Revo also scans your machine to remove leftover files and registry keys after the program has been removed. | Download |
| WinDirStat | WinDirStat is a utility program used to show the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called treemaps. It is useful to remove unwanted files in order to free up disk space. | Download |
| CCleaner | CCleaner, developed by Piriform, is a utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files (including temporary internet files, where malicious programs and code tend to reside) and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. | Download |
| Belarc Advisor | The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, product license keys, network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server. | Download |
| Office Uninstaller | Use this tool to uninstall Office 2013, Office 2016, or Office 365 when it will not uninstall from the control panel. | Download |
| Never10 | Never10 is a piece of software that will disable prompts to update to windows 10 if you are running an earlier windows operating systems. (You can safely ignore any warnings from symantec that are caused by this tool, its author is trusted. See grc.com for more information.) | Download |
Cleanup Tools (Mac)
| Disk Utility | Disk Utility is an Apple Mac OS X operating system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks. It is built into OS X, so no installation is required. Disk utility is capable of mounting disk volumes, verifying and repairing disk integrity, verifying and repairing disk permissions, erasing, formatting and cloning disks, editing partition tables, and checking S.M.A.R.T. status. | Built in to OS X |
| Techtool | Techtool Pro provides tools for maintaining and troubleshooting your Mac, including drive monitoring and repair, RAM testing, troubleshooting and data protection. | OS X Netboot |
| DiskWarrior | DiskWarrior resolves existing disk damage by rebuilding your disk directory using data recovered from the original directory, thereby recovering files and folders that you thought were lost. The directories DiskWarrior creates are also optimized for maximum directory performance. | OS X Netboot |
| CCleaner | CCleaner, developed by Piriform, is a utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files (including temporary internet files, where malicious programs and code tend to reside) from a computer. A public version 1.01 for OS X has been released along with a commercial Network Edition. | Download |
| Disk Inventory X | Disk Inventory X is a utility program used to show the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called treemaps. It is useful to remove unwanted files in order to free up disk space. | Download |
| AppCleaner | AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them. | Download |
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| Owner: | Hannah P. | Group: | DoIT Tech Store |
| Created: | 2015-01-05 10:53 CDT | Updated: | 2020-09-15 13:12 CDT |
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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.
To download and run RemoveSymantecMacFiles:
- Download RemoveSymantecMacFiles.zip from article attachments.
- Symantec updates this tool regularly to accommodate changes introduced in newer releases of Symantec Endpoint Protection for Macintosh, so if you have not downloaded it recently, we recommend that you do so now.
- On the target computer, double-click the RemoveSymantecMacFiles.zip file that you downloaded so that the file expands.
- We recommend using the built-in Archive Utility to expand this file.
- NOTE: To use this tool, you must be logged in to the Macintosh with an Administrator account with a non-blank password.
- Open the RemoveSymantecMacFiles folder.
- Double-click RemoveSymantecMacFiles.command (if you do not display file extensions, it appears as RemoveSymantecMacFiles). This will launch a Terminal window.
- If an OS security prompt appears ('.. can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer') then use control-click to open and bypass security prompt (see Open a Mac app from an unindentified developer for more information).
- Type your macOS password, and then press return.
- NOTE: When you type your password, no characters appear.
- Do one of the following:
- To remove all Symantec files and folders, type 1
- To quit RemoveSymantecMacFiles without removing any files, type 2
- Press Return.
- The utility RemoveSymantecMacFiles removes all files within Symantec-installed folders, even those you may have created yourself.
- On the Terminal menu, click Quit Terminal.
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.
Symantec Uninstall Tool Mac
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.