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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Symantec Corporation:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Symantec Corporation and subsidiaries (the
Company) as of March 31, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity
and comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended March 31, 2007. In
connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the related financial
statement schedule listed in Item 15. These consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule are
the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated
financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects,
the financial position of Symantec Corporation and subsidiaries as of March 31, 2007 and 2006, and the results of
their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended March 31, 2007, in
conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement
schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents
fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
As discussed in the Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, immediately preceding note 1 to the
consolidated financial statements, effective April 1, 2006, the Company adopted the provisions of Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment, and Securities and Exchange Commission
Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 108, Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying
Misstatements in the Current Year Financial Statements.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2007,
based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated May 23, 2007 expressed an unqualified
opinion on management’s assessment of, and the effective operation of, internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Mountain View, California
May 23, 2007
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