Symantec Endpoint Protection < rant >

[Papa_Complex]

So, has anyone ever had to deal with this absolute piece of shit 'security software' before? So far I've got 4 hours into trying to get it off of one of our VP's tablet PCs. Remove it, and it kills networking. Leave it in, and the CPU never seems to go below 50% utilization. OK, so how does it protect your PC? I guess making it COMPLETELY FUCKING UNUSABLE means that you'll never get a virus.

My past experience with tablets tells me that I REALLY don't want to have to reinstall the O/S. Symantec's forums have proved to be useless. Their 'removal tool' doesn't work with this shit. Internet searches show that lots of people have the issue with it pushing the CPU harder than it should AND with it screwing everything up when it's removed. Hell, it even screws up permissions on registry keys, so that you can't delete them to correct the problems after uninstall.