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REPORT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
The Board of Directors and Stockholders
Symantec Corporation
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Symantec Corporation as of
March 31, 2002 and 2001, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity, and
cash Öows for each of the three years in the period ended March 31, 2002. Our audits also included the
Ñnancial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 14(a). These Ñnancial statements and schedule are
the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these Ñnancial
statements and schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States.
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
Ñnancial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the Ñnancial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and signiÑcant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
Ñnancial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the Ñnancial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the
consolidated Ñnancial position of Symantec Corporation at March 31, 2002 and 2001, and the consolidated
results of its operations and its cash Öows for each of the three years in the period ended March 31, 2002, in
conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Also, in our opinion, the
related Ñnancial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic Ñnancial statements taken as a
whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.
/s/ E
RNST
& Y
OUNG
LLP
San Jose, California
April 22, 2002
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