Discover The Hidden Fact Of Norton Antivirus And Symantec Corporation

Symantec corporation is one the 10 biggest sotware company in the world, one of leading brand name in antivirus software industry.

During the 1990, Syamantec bought a computer utility product developed by software engineer Peter Norton, named his creation as Norton Utilities. From that moment, Symantec used the name "Norton" as their brand.

Today, symantec is well known with his branded Norton protection products, you name it!. The first is the famous Norton Antivirus. Symantec corporation is now a public listed company.

It was founded in Sunnyvale, California on march 1 1982. The current headquarter of Symantec Corporation was located at Cupertion, California, United States. Symantec is hiring 17,500 employees (2007). The annual revenue for the company in 2008 is $463.65 million Us Dollar. That was a huge amount!

What people like most in Symantec antivirus products is its full, secured protection from virus threats, while in the same time maintain safe protection from hackers, phisers and identity theft. Their close rival is McAfee and Pc-Cillin who in the eyes of consumers, offer the same solid protection.

Norton antivirus had gained a trust from Yahoo until it was being used widely as their online antivirus scanning software in Yahoo! Mail. Pc Magazine also quoted Norton Antivirus as the antivirus software for the year, beating other application in the same class.

Maybe because its Yellow colour, Norton branded products sells better.