After struggling to remove Symantec from my system, I made sure it was still running fine for awhile. The using regedit I went in and removed any other instances of ‘symantec’ from the registry and it helped a little more. Even after you uninstall it there are still some resources left behind that load on boot. I think one was the automatic update dll’s. I guess they figure it should still check to see if anything needs ot be updated.
I really hate that it comes pre-installed on just about everything.