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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 April 2, 2010 and April 3, 2009, and the related consolidated statements of operations,
stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 2, 2010. 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 April 2, 2010 and April 3, 2009, and the results
of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 2, 2010, 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 April 4, 2009, Symantec Corporation
changed its method of accounting for convertible debt instruments that may be settled in cash upon conversion
(including partial cash settlement) by retrospectively adopting new accounting requirements issued by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), Symantec Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of April 2, 2010, based on
criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Orga-
nizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”), and our report dated May 21, 2010 expressed an unqualified
opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Mountain View, California
May 21, 2010
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