Newly installed and LiveUpdated Norton Internet Security on our six PowerMacG5's running OS 10.4.11 about 12/1/2010.
Now suddenly beginning Dec. 30, three of the six are having kernel panics, often on startup, then every few hours.
My employee spent all day attempting to resolve on her PowerBookG4- 1.67GHz, 1GRam, OS10.4.11, zapped PRAM- no effect, uninstalled all Symantec and reinstalled NIS 4.1 then LiveUpdated all, (Antifvirus 11.1.2, Confiidential 1.3.3, Firewall 4.1.1)-- still kernel panic.
After wasting half a day hunting for solution on web, I removed the issue by restarting in Safe Mode (hold shift key down through startup), and uninstalling all Symantec (run the Uninstaller found in Symantec Solutions folder in Applications).
No more kernel panics in two hours. Hoping kernel panics won't recur, but running with no security except firewall in DSL modem set at "Low." Did run complete manual scan before uninstalling, nothing found.
We've been unable to identify a commonality among the three affected vs. the three unaffected, unless it could be updates which are automatic but run on different days, so possibly different on different machines.
Please just let me know when the solution is available and how to get it. We have no more time to waste on testing. In the meanwhile I'll install some other antivirus protection on all.
Typical of the six similarly affected: PowerMac G5, Dual PowerPC 2.7GHz, 2.25GRam, OS 10.4.11, Norton Internet Security 4.1, some updated manually again this morning.
Attached is a log which includes at bottom at least one of the kernel panics I've had today.