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Products and Services .
Our products, comprising utility software for business and personal computing, are currently organized into the
following three primary business units: Security and Assistance; Remote Productivity Solutions; and Internet Tools.
The following table summarizes our principal products by business unit:
Principal Products. The principal products of each of our business units include:
• Security and Assistance
Norton AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh
Norton Utilities and Norton Utilities for Macintosh
Norton SystemWorks
Norton Ghost
Norton Cleansweep
Norton Web Services
Norton 2000
• Remote Productivity Solutions
pcANYWHERE
WinFax PRO
ACT!
ProComm Plus
TalkWorks PRO
Norton Mobile Essentials
• Internet Tools
Symantec Visual Café (Database Edition)
Symantec Visual Café (Professional Edition)
Symantec Visual Café (Standard Edition)
Symantec Visual Café (Enterprise Suite)
Most of the products that we are currently developing or marketing feature LiveUpdate. This feature enables users
to download from our corporate website, free of cost, software corrections or “patches” that fix reported errors or
“bugs” in the products.
Security and Assistance
Our Security and Assistance business unit is dedicated to providing products that are indispensable in customers’ daily
use of computers by increasing their productivity and keeping their computers safe and reliable. Net revenues from
this business unit were approximately 57%, 54% and 50% of our net revenues for fiscal 1999, 1998 and 1997,
respectively.
Norton AntiVirus runs in a computer’s background and is designed to protect against, detect and eliminate computer
viruses. This software covers multiple sources of infection, including the Internet, email attachments, floppy disks,
shared files and networks. Norton AntiVirus also enables the user to download, via our LiveUpdate function, new
virus definitions created by the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC). Versions of this software run on the
Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, MS-DOS, Macintosh and Power Macintosh operating systems.
Our Norton AntiVirus product line also includes support for Lotus Notes, through Norton AntiVirus for Notes and
Novell NetWare, through Norton AntiVirus NetWare.
Norton Utilities is a set of “tools” that are designed to fix and prevent computer problems, optimize system
performance, recover lost files and rescue unresponsive systems. The latest versions of Norton Utilities have extended
data protection capabilities, including crash protection and, for our Windows versions, registry repair. In addition,
Norton Utilities provides an advanced and thorough disk optimization system, which optimizes the system based upon
the way the particular computer is used. Versions of Norton Utilities run on the Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows NT, MS-DOS, Macintosh and Power Macintosh operating systems.
Norton SystemWorks is a fully integrated suite of system utilities designed to give personal computer, or PC, users
protection from viruses and crashes, solve problems, remove unneeded files and update users’ applications. Included