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CUPERTINO, Calif. – May 27, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the findings of its 2009 Green IT Report, a follow up to the Green Data Center report released in late 2007. According to survey data, senior-level IT executives report significant interest in green IT strategies and solutions, attributed to both cost reduction and environmental responsibility. The data points to a shift from implementing “green” technologies primarily for cost reduction purposes, to a more balanced awareness of also improving the organization’s environmental standing.
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Full View / NID: 28465 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa. - May 12, 2009 - Symantec Corp. is warning South Africans to take care to protect themselves against a plethora of attacks over the Internet and likely to hit around the 2010 FIFA World Cup Tournament, all focused on monetary gain.
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Full View / NID: 28286 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – May 7, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced its executives will be speaking at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on May 19 at 2:20 p.m. ET in Boston.
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Full View / NID: 28221 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – May 6, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today reported the results of its fiscal fourth quarter and the fiscal year 2009, ended April 3, 2009. GAAP revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter was $1.47 billion. Non-GAAP revenue was $1.49 billion, down 4 percent (up 2 percent, adjusting for currency) over the comparable period a year ago. For the fiscal year, GAAP revenue was $6.15 billion and non-GAAP revenue was $6.2 billion. On a non-GAAP basis, fiscal year 2009 revenue grew 5 percent (up 4 percent, adjusting for currency) compared with fiscal year 2008 revenue of $5.94 billion.
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Full View / NID: 28193 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 30, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Managed Backup Services, a comprehensive offering which provides management of backup and recovery operations, allowing customers to more effectively utilize IT resources and focus on core business priorities. Organizations have increasingly more platforms, applications, servers, virtual machines and databases to protect than ever before. Out-tasking discrete IT functions such as backup and recovery, ensures 24x7 availability and enables IT resources to focus on more strategic initiatives, fulfill compliance requirements and mitigate their overall IT risk.
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Full View / NID: 28135 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 29, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that businesses around the world, including Megatone Carsa S.A., City of Winter Park and Golden Temple of Oregon, LLC, are seeing tangible results using Symantec data protection solutions to secure and manage their VMware environments. These organizations rely on Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec to protect their data and systems in both physical and virtual environments through a single solution, helping them reduce server, network and storage requirements and improve recovery time and reliability. Through tight integration with VMware, NetBackup and Backup Exec deliver market leading support for virtual environments and the most efficient virtual machine backups possible.
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Full View / NID: 28109 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 27, 2009 – Today’s parents rate Internet dangers higher on their list of concerns than drugs. According to the Norton Online Living Family Survey, conducted in March 2009, 56 percent of parents are concerned their kids may come across Internet dangers, which could include online predators and cyberbullies, versus drug-related threats (44 percent). Traditional parental control products are not enough to protect kids online and address parents’ concerns. That’s why Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, announced today the launch of a new family safety service that takes a different approach to protecting kids online. Symantec is offering OnlineFamily.Norton, available at http://onlinefamily.norton.com, for free until Jan. 1, 2010. The service is valued at $60 for a one year subscription.
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Full View / NID: 28086 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 21, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has expanded its security portfolio by offering new Protection Suites for small business and enterprise customers and adding Web security technology through the acquisition of Mi5 Networks. Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition and Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition are comprehensive solutions designed to secure firms against security risks and business interruptions, ensuring systems and critical information are readily available. The Symantec Protection Suites are scheduled to be available in summer 2009.
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Full View / NID: 27995 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 21, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition, designed to provide unmatched security with minimal configuration. By offering easy-to-use, enterprise level protection for small businesses, Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition allows customers to quickly get up and running with the confidence that their organizational assets are protected, thus allowing them to focus on core business priorities. Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition is scheduled to be available in summer 2009.
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Full View / NID: 27994 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 15, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has earned widespread recognition for its leadership role in promoting sustainability for the software industry. The company continues to invest in continuous improvement by integrating corporate responsibility (CR) measures into its business strategy and operations.
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Full View / NID: 27919 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 14, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that malicious code activity continued to grow at a record pace throughout 2008, primarily targeting confidential information of computer users. According to the company’s Internet Security Threat Report Volume XIV, Symantec created more than 1.6 million new malicious code signatures in 2008. This equates to more than 60 percent of the total malicious code signatures ever created by Symantec — a response to the rapidly increasing volume and proliferation of new malicious code threats. These signatures helped Symantec block an average of more than 245 million attempted malicious code attacks across the globe each month during 2008.
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Full View / NID: 27897 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 9, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today released the findings of its 2009 Storage and Security in SMBs survey. The study found that while SMBs are familiar with cyber risks and have clearly defined goals for security and storage, a surprisingly high number have yet to take even the most basic steps towards protecting their businesses, such as implementing antivirus or backing up their data. The study is based on surveys of 1,425 small and medium businesses in 17 countries during the first quarter of 2009.
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Full View / NID: 27834 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 8, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, today announced the grand prize winner of its “Blast Off With Norton” sweepstakes. Jorge Patricio León López from Chile has been selected to take a suborbital flight to space, blasting out of the Earth’s atmosphere, experiencing weightlessness and seeing the boundary between Earth and space.
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Full View / NID: 27821 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 7, 2009 – Spring is in the air and Earth Day is just around the corner, so thinking green can also mean saving green. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, proper management settings on a PC can save families up to $75 per computer per year on their electricity bill. And with more than one billion computers turned on worldwide, if everyone saves a little energy and produces a little less C02, the earth wins too.
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Full View / NID: 27796 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 7, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Molina Healthcare and Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) are using technologies and services within the Symantec Healthcare Provider Solution to improve patient care, reduce IT costs and comply with regulations governing the security and availability of patient records. The Symantec Healthcare Provider Solution enables Molina Healthcare and Visiting Nurse Service of New York to ensure patient records are both protected and immediately accessible to authorized personnel. The Symantec Healthcare Provider Solution will also help both organizations answer President Obama’s call to have all medical records digitized by 2014.
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Full View / NID: 27795 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 7, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor, a software management tool that transforms data center operations by increasing productivity, proactively identifying availability risks and lowering costs. Disaster Recovery Advisor furthers Symantec’s goal to help organizations efficiently secure and manage their information by expanding on Symantec’s market leading high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) capabilities to identify configuration vulnerabilities in any data center and ensure applications can be recovered in the event of an unplanned outage.
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Full View / NID: 27794 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 6, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it expanded its leadership in the overall storage software market according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, March 2009, which also reported 15.1 percent year-over-year revenue growth in that market. This growth outpaces both the market and all competitors. The IDC results indicate that while other vendors either lost market share or made only a slight gain in 2008, Symantec captured 18.2 percent of the overall storage software market, up significantly from 2007.
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Full View / NID: 27793 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – April 6, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT to discuss the results of its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2009, ended April 3, 2009.
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Full View / NID: 27792 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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This tool is designed to remove the infections of W32.Downadup, W32.Downadup.B, W32.Downadup.C.
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Full View / NID: 27697 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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CUPERTINO, Calif. – Mar. 23, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today released the findings of its 2009 Managed Security in the Enterprise Report. The study found that cyber risks and actual attacks have grown significantly in the past two years and are expected to continue to grow in the next two years. Nearly all organizations surveyed (98 percent) have experienced tangible loss as a result. This growth in risks and attacks comes at a time when IT reports it is difficult to address the problems due to inadequate budgets, increased regulatory pressures and staffing woes. As a result, most U.S. enterprises (61 percent) are moving to adopt managed security services. The study is based on surveys of 1,000 IT managers in U.S. and European enterprises in January 2009.
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Full View / NID: 27570 / Submitted by: TACKtech Team
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