A quick way to kill this resource hog
how to remove symantec endpoint protection without password
If you work in a corporate environment, you and your computer may be the unsuspecting victim of a horrible piece of software from Symantec called Endpoint Protection. It’s a massive program that includes anti-spyware, anti-virus, network threat detection, and all sorts of other super security crap.
I certainly understand the need for these programs and I use them myself, but Endpoint Protection is a huge resource hog. It is also nearly impossible to turn it off or stop it. I have even tried to stop all processes related to it, but it still keeps running.
The worst part of the program is that it has to eat all the CPU power of your computer. My computer never went from 100% CPU usage when the program was running. I tried disabling services and startup programs with MSCONFIG but it didn't help.
