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Symantec Corporation ( NASDAQ: [http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol= }&selected= } }]), founded in 1982, is an information security company headquartered in Cupertino, California that specializes in computer security and antivirus software.Symantec has been primarily known for its Norton brand of antivirus and utility software , named for software engineer Peter Norton.
Some software released by the Symantec Corporation are Norton AntiVirus, Norton Commander, Norton Internet Security , Norton Personal Firewall , Norton SystemWorks (which now contains the venerable Norton Utilities), Norton AntiSpam , Norton GoBack , and Norton Ghost.
Due to the recent acquisition of PowerQuest, Symantec now produces the newest versions of PartitionMagic, called Norton PartitionMagic. Drive Image has become Norton Ghost, replacing the original program.
The Symantec Security Response organization (formerly Symantec Antivirus Research Center) is one of the foremost antivirus and computer security research groups in the industry.
1 Acquisitions
Symantec has acquired many companies which gave it the technologies that it uses to produce its current softwares. For the list of acquisitions, see List of Symantec acquisitionsSince 1990, Symantec acquired the following corporations/technologies (chronologically): 1990 August: Peter Norton Computing, Inc. 1994 June: Central Point Software 1995 November: Delrina WinFax 1998 May: IBM's antivirus and immune system technology June:.
2 See also
- John W. ThompsonThompson (born April 24, 1949 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is a chairman and chief executive officer of Symantec. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Florida A&M University in 1971. He earned a master's degree in management science
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