We discovered a bug in LiveUpdate® version 3.0.1 and earlier, a component of Symantec® Norton AntiVirus® for Macintosh® version 9.x, under Mac® OS X 10.3 Panther®. Make sure to please read the warnings in the linked page before using the provided program - this program will uninstall all Symantec stuff, both retail and beta.Removing temporary files left by Symantec LiveUpdate Go to the support page for Norton SystemWorks, and then use the search phrase NortonUninstall removal utility. Thankfully, Symantec does supply a much more thorough uninstaller. Do you want reduced stability from a program that you thought you had uninstalled? Very messy not very nice. A KEXT file is a kernel extension, something that operates at the lowest level of the OS (and bugs in such code can reduce system stability). Including (Symantec) KEXT files in your /System/Library/ folder. There are files left behind all over your hard drive.

Not only that, but when I updated from 2.0 to 3.0 (a while back), some old and obsolete files that were installed by 2.0 were just left in place. I thought that I had uninstalled all of the SystemWorks 3.0 components, but it turns out that the uninstaller didn't take everything away.

From their site: Currently, the following products are compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (code named Tiger):Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.0Norton Personal Firewall for Macintosh 3.0.3Norton SystemWorks and Norton Utilities will not be updated for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4.If you thought that running the regular uninstaller for your Norton program would actually uninstall everything, then you thought wrong.

Symantec does not support Norton SystemWorks or Utilities on Tiger, and they never will.

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