Symantec Launches $15 Million Piracy Suit
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Company sues alleged software piracy ring for selling counterfeit versions of its products, including Norton AntiVirus.
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Symantec is suing a group of software vendors claiming they distributed several unauthorized versions of security and backup software, including Norton AntiVirus and Veritas Backup Exec.
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Symantec has added disk-backup capability to its NetBackup software.
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COMPUTER security giant Symantec has agreed to acquire storage and backup program specialist Veritas Software in an equity deal valued at around $13.5 billion ($17.8 billion).
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In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., a lawsuit has been filed to enforce an open-source license.
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Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced that Symantec Security Response in conjunction with the Indiana University School of Informatics has uncovered a significant new security threat.
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(InfoWorld) - Retailers have begun taking orders for Symantec's next-generation desktop security software, and the product is set to ship in the middle of next month, according to Amazon.com. Symantec has been working on the software for more than a year and is heavily marketing it as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare and McAfee's Total Protection 2007. Like its competitors, Norton 360 can be used to back up files, and the software also delivers new encryption, hard drive clean-up, and password-protection features. The software, which is sold on an annual subscription basis, has been beta tested by more than 100,000 users since it was released in beta late last November. Symantec had said it was expecting to ship Norton 360 sometime in March, and over the past few days, Amazon has begun accepting orders for the product, which will be released to Amazon customers on March 15, according to the company's Web site. Norton 360, which can be used by as many as three PCs simultaneously, is list-priced at $76.99, but Symantec is offering a $20 rebate, putting the Amazon.com price at $56.99. That's a lower list price than McAfee's comparable Total Protection software, which lists at $99.99, but after rebates and pricing breaks, a three-license version of Total Protection can be had on Amazon.com for just $39.99. Windows Live OneCare has the lowest list price of the three products, just $49.95. It can be purchased on Amazon.com for $37.49.
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Symantec Corp.  said on  Thursday it filed a petition with the U.S. Tax Court over an  IRS demand that the security software maker pay &#36;1.06 billion  in back taxes and penalties related to its affiliate.
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More than $500 million worth of  pirated software, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec  products, has been seized in a long-running joint probe by  Chinese police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation,  officials from both countries said on Tuesday.
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Class action suit accuses the software giant of violating state's business code.
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Unpalatable A Chinese user's attempt to sue Symantec for damage caused as a result of dodgy anti-virus signature update files is unlikely to succeed, according to security experts.â¦
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InfoWorld - It may have taken enterprise customers years to get proper security tools in place to defend their PCs, but if large businesses drag their feet in aligning the applications necessary to protect their smartphones, they will pay a heavy price, says Symantec.
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A new variant of the MyDoom virus is designed to launch a denial-of-service attack against antivirus software maker Symantec, according to security firm Sophos.
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The product formerly known as "Hamlet" is about to be made publicly available. Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 will be relased to public beta during next week's Symantec Vision conference in Las Vegas.
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Bounty program paying off Adobe and Symantec have unleashed legal attack dogs on nine individuals accused of selling pirated software on eBay.â¦
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A worm was released recently designed to break into corporate computers running Symantec Corp's security software and make them part of its botnet.
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NEW YORK, December 16  - Security software developer Symantec (SYMC.NAS) announced today its decision to acquire storage service provider Veritas Software in a $13.5 billion deal.