When you are removing / uninstall the Symantec Antivirus manually, it looks like their instructions of manual remove is not complete. One of the last steps required you to remove a “SSC” directory in “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared” but you might not be able to remove it because of the locked vpshell2.dll.

Tags: Security, Symantec, vpshell2.dll