I'm from Russia so I apologize for my english.
Our company has been successfully used SEP11. But after the upgrade SEPM to version 12 and start push install, on OS Windows 2008 x64 antivirus not install correctly. Specifically: during startup symantec from the tray, I get a message that some services Symantec stopped.In the list of services actually stopped service SmcService.
Removing Symantec through the installation / removal does not work: the window with the progress of removal after 5 minutes of closing, but still run Symantec service and registry entries.
A deeper analysis shows that there are registry branch HKLM \ Software \ Wow6432Node \ Symantec, which is not possible to remove or change its settings.
The owner of the branches is Local System account. Change of ownership is not possible.
When you run regedit.exe under the Local System account (PsExec-i-s regedit.exe) and attempts to change of ownership results in an error - invaliddescriptor.
How can I completely remove Symantec and its registry entries to start the installation from scratch?