Uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection v14.x with Bypass tampering protection

[Nabila Fauzi]

Hi,

Our clients already decommissioned SEP since 2019 and required us to uninstall remaining SEP products on all of their endpoints, roughly around 30,000 units. I would like to request a script that enable us to bypass the tampering protection as the current script obtain from Symantec only useful for SEP without tampering protection. 

Regards.

[John Owens]

Hi, 
Here are our command line options for uninstalling. We do not provide scripts to uninstall.

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/151297/uninstall-the-endpoint-protection-client.html


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John Owens
Strategic Support Engineer | Symantec Endpoint Security Division (SES)
Broadcom Software
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[Kosta_KE_SK]

Hello John,

you provided a link to command line options for uninstalling, but if there is a password protection that needs to be removed first in console.

Is there any solution how to automate uninstall with password protected SEP without use of console?
I need to reinstall SEP machines which have broken communication with console.

CleanWipe do the job, but I'm unable to run it silently/without user interaction.

[Imtiaz Hussain]

Did you try with clean Wipe to uninstall SEP

[Nabila Fauzi]

Good Day Hussain, 

Yes we already tried the method but quite hassled to us since there were users in remote regions/sites hence using script is preferred method.

[Torsten Knorr]

So you created a SEP package with clean-wipe option?
(Two reboots required, one enforced to immediately reinstall SEP.)

Did you also tried to use a Communication update package, which includes:

• SylinkDrop.exe (it is also included within the installed SEP package)
• SylinkDropCommand.ini (with hashed password for the group the client belong to)
• Sylink.xml

You can deploy it over GPO, SCCM, every third party software deployment tool or remote Push from SEPM console.