24 December, 2009

Hacking to Uninstall Symantec Antivirus Client Without Password.
To Uninstall a Norton or Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition Clients in a managed network, sometimes a password prompt window is appeared. Most of us forget the password and there is no way to uninstall the client forcedly. In that critical situation you will have only a way to hack windows registry to remove the password prompt window. You have to proceed as follow:
  1. Go to Run ( You can press Windows Key + R to open Run)
  2. Type regedit and press Enter to open the Registry Editor
  3. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Administrator Only\Security
  4. Here you will see a DWORD value named UseVPUninstallPassword. Double click on it and Change the value from 1 to 0 then click on OK.
  5. Close Registry Editor.
Now try to Uninstall Symantec Antivirus and no password prompt window will appeared.
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