How to uninstall Norton or Symantec Anti-Virus Program

How to uninstall Norton or Symantec Anti-Virus Program?

Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. Here we recommend Registry Booster, a powerful tool helps you to clean, backup, restore and defrag registry by few clicks.

How to uninstall Norton or Symantec Anti-Virus Program

1. Click Windows Start button => Setting => Control Panel (on the left-hand pane) => Add or Remove Programs.

2. Uninstall Norton or Symantec Anti-Virus as follows:

For Windows XP or 2000:
• inside "Add or Remove Program" window, select "Norton Anti-Virus" or "Symantec Anti-Virus Client"
• click the "Remove" button.


For Windows Me or 98:
• inside "Install/Uninstall" window, select "Norton Anti-Virus" or "Symantec Anti-Virus Client"
• click "Add/Remove" button to uninstall the program.

3. Reboot PC after uninstallation of Norton or Symantec Anti-Virus program.

Note: When you install Sophos Anti-Virus on Windows XP computers, you may encounter the problem on s32event1.dll.

You should first remove the Windows Registry entry for s32event1 by using the Registry Editor (regedit) as follows:

1. click Windows Start button => Run => type regedit => click OK to start the Registry Editor window

2. click menu Edit => Find => type s32event1 => click the Find Next button

3. when an entry is found, delete it by clicking on the entry and click the menu Edit => Delete

4. press the key F3 to Find Next and repeat step 3-4 until no more entry s32event1 is found.

Note: The full path of the entry should be something like

"My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet???\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers\s32event1"

5. click menu File => Exit to exit the Registry Editor

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