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Our primary consumer products are:
Norton Internet Security
TM
This product helps defend home and home office users against
viruses, worms, and other security risks, including spyware, spam,
phishing, and fraud. It combines antivirus, antispam, firewall,
privacy protection, and parental control technologies. It automati-
cally filters spam and phishing email and blocks intruders and
identity thieves.
Norton AntiVirus
TM
This product automatically removes viruses, Trojan horses, and
worms. It also checks incoming and outgoing email attachments
for viruses. In addition, it scans incoming instant message attach-
ments for threats and it detects and blocks high-risk spyware and
adware programs before they are installed on the receiving system.
Norton SystemWorks
TM
This family of PC health solutions provides consumers with essen-
tial tools to maintain and optimize their computers, solves common
problems, and helps boost system performance. These solutions
enable back-up of everything on the PC and will recover a user's
system and data Ì even if the operating system will not start.
These solutions also include capabilities such as antivirus, system
optimization diagnostics and utilities, backup and recovery, and
one-button check up.
For most of our consumer products, we translate the documentation, software, and packaging into the
local language and prepare marketing programs tailored for each local market.
Enterprise Security
Our Enterprise Security segment provides security solutions for all tiers of a network: at the server tier
behind the gateway and at the client tier, including desktop PCs, laptops, and handhelds. Our comprehensive
software and appliance solutions include virus protection and content filtering, antispam, endpoint security,
firewall and virtual private networking, or VPN, intrusion protection, policy compliance, security manage-
ment, managed security services, and early warning services.
Our technology offerings include integrated solutions at the gateway and client levels, including
Symantec Client Security and Symantec Gateway Security, which combine several of our security and early
warning solutions. At the gateway level, our products run on Windows NT, Solaris, and Linux platforms. At
the server level, our products operate on Windows NT, UNIX, Linux, and other key server platforms. At the
client level, our products run on the Windows platform.
Our primary enterprise security solutions address the following areas:
Antivirus
Nearly 75% of our sales within the Enterprise Security segment consist of solutions providing protection
from virus attacks, including Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Client Security, and Symantec Mail Security.
Users of our virus protection and filtering products are able to protect their computer networks from both
known and unknown risks associated with the use of Internet resources. Our enterprise antivirus products scan
or monitor data that enters, leaves, or travels inside the organization, and can detect and eliminate malicious
code that may be introduced into a company's network.
Antispam
Our antispam solutions protect more than 300 million email user accounts worldwide from unwanted
email known as spam. They provide a multi-layered approach to combating spam, with solutions that sit
outside the gateway, at the gateway, and at the desktop. The Symantec Mail Security software, appliance, and
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