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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 as
of April 3, 2009 and March 28, 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity
and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 3, 2009. 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 and financial statement schedule referred to above
present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Symantec Corporation and subsidiaries as of April 3,
2009 and March 28, 2008, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-
year period ended April 3, 2009, 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, Symantec
Corporation adopted the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 48, Accounting
for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.
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 April 3, 2009, 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 29, 2009 expressed an unqualified opinion on the
effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
/s/ KPMG LLP
Mountain View, California
May 29, 2009
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