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UNINSTALLING NORTON UTILITIES ON PERSONALLY OWNED MACHINES	PLATFORM	OPERATING SYSTEM	APPLICATION
UNINSTALLING NORTON UTILITIES ON PERSONALLY OWNED MACHINES	Mac	OS 9.X, OS X 10.X	Norton Antivirus

Uninstall Norton v. 7.0 & 8.0

The Symantec web site provides instructions for manually uninstalling Symantec Macintosh programs, including Norton Utilities for Macintosh 7.0 and Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 8.0

Uninstall Norton v. 9.0 (for OS X 10.2)

Instructions for uninstalling Norton Antivirus software are available online via the Help menu of your Norton program (Help > Norton AntiVirus Help > Browse Topic List > scroll to topic list, “Install Norton AntiVirus,” and select the last sub-topic, “If you need to uninstall Norton AntiVirus”) or the Symantec Web site.

Both of the above methods use the Norton Uninstall utility, which is included on your Norton installation CD.

Important:
* You must know your Mac OS X administrator password to run Norton Uninstall.
* Norton Uninstall removes all Symantec Mac OS X files from the Mac OS X boot volume, including invisible files (such as Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 8, Quick Scan and Norton File Saver files).

OS X 10.3

The uninstaller for Norton AntiVirus 9.0 is not compatible with OS x 10.3. To install from 10.3 you need to download a separate installer from the Symantec web site: for further details; to download the installer. After downloading the installer, follow the above instructions for uninstalling v.9 for Mac OS X 10.2.