

Please help, my Symantec Endpoint Protection Manger Service keeps stopping after I start it. Our network is a domain controlled by a Windows Server 2003 machine. Is there way to tell the nst process to use different credentials?Ĭlients are a mix of Windows 7 Pro 32 and 64 Bit In both the remote push and the push deployment wizard I've used the same credentials to tell Symantec how to connect to the PCs. If I try to update the same PC using the Push Deployment wizard the SEP client is sent to and installed on the PCs without any issues. At the same time the SEP server's log indicated that the process trying to logon to the client was nst.I've attached screenshots of the client and server security event logs showing the logons that failed. The log indicated the SEP server was trying to logon to the client using NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE and that it failed due to an unknown user name or bad password. In the client's event log I noticed a logon failure was showing when I was attempting to send the SEP files. In the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager I've been attempting to remote push the Symantec Endpoint Protection Client to my company's Windows 7 PCs.The process appears to fail a few seconds after SEPM begins sending the installation files. The deployment status shows a red X and indicates that the process failed. Anyway, if you are in a similar situation where you don’t know the password to uninstall Endpoint Protection, then you’ll be happy to know of a quick way to bypass the password and still uninstall the program.I do not need a solution (just sharing information) It’s probably not that, unless your admin is very lazy, but worth a try. I tried to uncheck the services and startup programs for it using MSCONFIG to no avail.įinally, I tried to uninstall it and I couldn’t even do that! The program was password protected so that no sane human being could uninstall the crap! I understand that the password is there to prevent employees from uninstalling it, but if you can’t do any work because your computer is unbearably slow, then it should at least allow the uninstall and notify the administrator.Īlso, you should try the default password of symantec or Symantec, with a capital S.


My computer never fell from 100% CPU usage when the program was running. The worst part about the program is its need to eat up all the processor power on your computer.
