Uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection without the uninstall password

First, go ahead and uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection via the Add/Remove Programs. When the Uninstall password box comes up, right click on your task bar and open “Task Manager”. Go to the processes tab and look for msiexec.exe. There is probably more than one of them – one of them is for the password box. Just go ahead and pick one, and hopefully it will be for the password box (if not just restart the uninstall process). Once you kill the password box, the uninstall will continue as normal.

Of course, one wonders how “secure” the uninstall password really is since it can be “hacked” so easily.