Attack of the kernel after upgrading to El Capitan

I need help and fashionable of despair. I get an error Kernel attack (such as published in full below) and can rule out a hardware malfunction. My situation is unique in the sense that I had a MacBook 2011 Pro - I upgraded to El Capitan and began to get the kernel attacks every twenty minutes or more. I ended up doing a restore of my Time Machine backup (which was of Yosemite), and the problem stopped. The interesting thing is that the time machine backup, while in Yosemite, never came back save El Capitan.

I bought a new MacBook Pro from Apple and restored my backup time computer machine and then upgraded to El Capitan backup, as he showed in my remarkable applications. Although less frequent, the attacks returned core. I got on the phone with Apple and we did a cover of the OSX drive on two of my computers. I get still kernel tackles. It's very frustrating and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anonymous UUID: 9A1431EE-FA42-9921-CDE2-2604EFA46733

Wed Mar 30 20:12:16 2016

Panic report *.

panic (the appellant 2 cpu 0xffffff8006b1fff0): "link element invalid queue for 0xffffff8043382000: 0xffffff80433ace40 next next-> prev 0 prev prev-> next 0x38"@/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-3248.40.184/osfmk/kern/queu e.h:245 0xffffff80417789c8.

Backtrace (2 CPU), Frame: Return address

0xffffff91f4cbbcb0: 0xffffff8006adab12

0xffffff91f4cbbd30: 0xffffff8006b1fff0

0xffffff91f4cbbd70: 0xffffff8006b1c7e2

0xffffff91f4cbbe50: 0xffffff8006ae4d59

0xffffff91f4cbbe70: 0xffffff7f8723d077

0xffffff91f4cbbea0: 0xffffff7f8723de29

0xffffff91f4cbbf00: 0xffffff8006b0f1ea

0xffffff91f4cbbfb0: 0xffffff8006bc8e27

Extensions of core in backtrace:

com.symantec.kext.internetSecurity (5.4f7) [852B8212-F3BE-D5F6-87F6-84B8D6517550] @0xffffff7f8723c000-> 0xffffff7f8724afff

Corresponding to the current thread BSD process name: kernel_task

Mac OS version:

15E65

Kernel version:

15.4.0 Darwin kernel version: Fri Feb 26 22:08:05 PST 2016; root:XNU-3248.40.184~3/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 4E7B4496-0B81-34E9-97AF-F316103B0839

Slide kernel: 0 x 0000000006800000

Text of core base: 0xffffff8006a00000

Text __HIB base: 0xffffff8006900000

Name of system model: MacBookPro12, 1 (Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6)

Availability of the system in nanoseconds: 7646056019303

last load kext to 4181530331876: com.apple.driver.AppleXsanScheme 3 (addr 0xffffff7f89655000 size 32768)

Finally unloaded kext to 137779832539: com.apple.driver.AppleIntelLpssI2C 2.0.60 (addr 0xffffff7f88ed4000 size 40960)

kexts responsible:

com Symantec.kext.PF 5.7.1f4

com.symantec.kext.internetSecurity 5.4f7

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothUSBDFU 4.4.4f4

com Apple.filesystems.afpfs 11.0

com Apple.NKE.asp - tcp 8.0.0

com Apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0

com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.70

com Apple.Driver.pmtelemetry 1

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.1

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.4.4f4

com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler 2.6.0d0

com.apple.driver.AGPM 110.21.18

com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim 1.0.0

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 274.7

com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 3.1

com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog 1

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy 3.7.7

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.6.1

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelBDWGraphics 10.1.4

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltIP 3.0.8

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.8.9

com.apple.driver.AppleHV 1

com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.4.4f4

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 208

com.apple.driver.AppleCameraInterface 5.46.0

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSlowAdaptiveClocking 4.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.2.13

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelBDWGraphicsFramebuffer 10.1.4

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 3.7.1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0

com.apple.BootCache 38

2.8.5 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage

com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 3.1.8

com.apple.driver.AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver 86

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 1040.1.1a6

com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8

com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 2.1

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.7

com Apple.NKE.applicationfirewall 163

com Apple.Security.Quarantine 3

com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 8

com.apple.driver.AppleXsanScheme 3

com.apple.driver.usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice 1.0.1

com Apple.Driver.USB.cdc 5.0.0

com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice 1.0.1

com.apple.security.SecureRemotePassword 1.0

com Apple.kext.Triggers 1.0

com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 274.7

com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 525

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelLpssUARTCommon 2.0.60

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.12.6

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 108.2.1

com.apple.driver.CoreCaptureResponder 1

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.1.0

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.4.1

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 274.7

com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 274.7

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 204.3

com.apple.vecLib.kext 1.2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.4.4f4

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.4.4f4

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 11

com.apple.driver.X86PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 6.0.0d7

com.apple.iokit.IOSlowAdaptiveClockingFamily 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.9

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.14d1

com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl 3.12.6

com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 205.3

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.4.1

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 3.7.7

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageDriver 1.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.7.7

com.Apple.Driver.USB.Networking 5.0.0

com.apple.driver.CoreStorage 517.20.1

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPInAdapter 4.1.3

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPAdapterFamily 4.1.3

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter 2.0.2

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.8.1

com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 181

com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 304.10.2

com.apple.driver.AppleHIDTransport 5

com.apple.driver.AppleHSSPIHIDDriver 43

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltNHI 4.0.4

com.apple.iokit.IOThunderboltFamily 6.0.2

com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 1110.26

com.apple.driver.mDNSOffloadUserClient 1.0.1b8

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.2

com Apple.Driver.corecapture 1.0.4

com.apple.driver.AppleHSSPISupport 43

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelLpssSpiController 2.0.60

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelLpssGspi 2.0.60

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelLpssDmac 2.0.60

com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCIPCI 1.0.1

com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI 1.0.1

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 900.4.1

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHostFamily 1.0.1

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHostMergeProperties 1.0.1

com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 2.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1

com Apple.Security.sandbox 300.0

com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1

com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 2

com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity 1.0.5

com.apple.driver.AppleCredentialManager 1.0

com.apple.driver.DiskImages 417.2

com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 2.1

com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily 31

com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore 28.30

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 4.0

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.9

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

com.apple.kec.Libm 1

com Apple.KEC.pthread 1

com Apple.KEC.corecrypto 1.0

Model: MacBookPro12, 1, MBP121.0167.B16 of BootROM, 2 processors, Intel Core i7, 3.1 GHz, 16 GB, MSC 2.28f7

Graphics card: Intel Graphics Iris 6100 6100, integrated Intel Iris graphics card

Memory module: DIMM0/0, 8 GB DDR3, BANK 1867 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x4544464232333241314D412D4A442D460000

Memory module: DIMM0/1, 8 GB DDR3, BANK 1867 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x4544464232333241314D412D4A442D460000

Airport: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0 x 133), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.95.175.1a6)

Bluetooth: Version 4.4.4f4 17685, 3 services, 27 aircraft, 1 incoming serial ports

Network service: Wi - Fi, AirPort, en0

Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD SM1024G, 1 TB

USB device: USB 3.0 Bus

USB Device: Card reader

USB Device: USB Bluetooth host controller

Bus crush: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 27.1

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