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2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders Voting Results

Final Stockholder Voting Results

The following is a summary of the voting results from Symantec Corporation's 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on Wednesday, September 23, 2009. The Record Date for the Annual Meeting was July 27, 2009 and 814,404,652 shares of the Company's common stock were outstanding. Of the shares, 706,696,833 shares of common stock, or 87% of the total number of outstanding shares, voted in the following manner:

Proposal 1: Election of Directors

Nominees

% FOR

FOR

% WITHHELD

WITHHELD

Michael A. Brown

98.3%

694,475,376

12,221,457

1.7%

William T. Coleman

98.3%

694,647,473

12,049,361

1.7%

Frank E. Dangeard

96.8%

684,350,620

22,346,213

3.2%

Geraldine B. Laybourne

98.2%

694,043,914

12,652,919

1.8%

David L. Mahoney

98.3%

694,640,862

12,055,971

1.7%

Robert S. Miller

92.2%

651,495,256

55,201,577

7.8%

Enrique Salem

98.5%

695,694,641

11,002,192

1.5%

Daniel H. Schulman

97.9%

691,538,241

15,158,593

2.1%

John W. Thompson

97.5%

688,738,943

17,957,890

2.5%

V. Paul Unruh

98.4%

695,093,385

11,603,448

1.6%


Proposal 2: Ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as Symantec's independent registered public accountant for the 2010 fiscal year:

               FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN

Total Shares Voted

698,235,779

6,004,818

2,456,235

% Of Voted

98.8%

0.8%

0.4%

% of Outstanding

85.7%

0.7%

0.3%


Proposal 3: Stockholder proposal regarding the right to call special stockholder meetings:

               FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN

Total Shares Voted

339,258,591

279,565,407

3,445,942

% Of Voted

54.5%

44.9%

0.6%

% of Outstanding

41.7%

34.3%

0.4%