To hide the shield icon we will need to add the following registry (dword 32bit) and set the value to 0
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SMC\LaunchSmcGui
You will need to restart SMC service before you can see the effect.
When disabling SmcGui, the following functionalities are also disabled:
- No SEP icon on the system tray
- No ability to open the system logs from the client GUI
- No ability to see the firewall or SNAC status from the GUI (most customers will not install a firewall on their Terminal Server)
- No startup scans
- No delayed threat detection notifications
- No missing or out of date definition notifications
- Clients do not display all information in the Help & Support > Troubleshooting > General Information (Server, Group, Location, Policy serial number, etc)
- Clients locally show as Offline on the Help & Support > Troubleshooting > General Information view. In reality the client is still forwarding stateful information and log data to the Symantec Protection Center (SPC).
- Clients do not show the Logon Client status on the SPC client status view.