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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 28, 2008 and March 30, 2007, 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 28, 2008. 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 28, 2008 and March 30, 2007, and the
results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended March 28, 2008,
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 Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, effective March 31, 2007, the Company
adopted the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty
in Income Taxes. Also discussed in Note 1, effective April 1, 2006, the Company adopted the provisions of
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of March 28, 2008, 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 20, 2008 expressed an unqualified opinion on the
effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Mountain View, California
May 20, 2008
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