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Now I’m going to introduce you to Antivirus Removal Tool, free and portable software that takes the leg work out of hunting down specific tools. It’s one of the main reasons most antivirus vendors provide specialist tools to help completely uninstall their products.īack in 2015, we published an article that included links to most of these tools: How To Completely Remove Antivirus Software. I've also tried doing this in PowerShell with similar results using this command: (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Filter 'Name='Symantec Endpoint Protection'' -ComputerName COMPUTERNAME).Uninstall()ĭoes anyone know what the issue is, or know of any Symantec uninstall utility that can be run from the command line? I'd like to not have to restart the computer and not require user input as well.Antivirus products have always been among the most difficult applications to uninstall completely with leftover bits and pieces often causing residual issues. The command prompt is elevated to SYSTEM, so it shouldn't be a permissions issue. Verify that the specified log file location exists and is writable

Here is a link to the error code meanings: ġ622 Error opening installation log file.

This worked for the majority of the time, but some machines (~40) say that the method has completed, but return an error code and don't actually uninstall. They either return a 1603 or a 1622. This is the command I’ve been using: wmic product where (name = “symantec endpoint protection”) call uninstall I’m trying to uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection on several of our machines using only the command prompt and not requiring any user input.

Download symantec endpoint protection removal tool