hello everybody can anybody tell me how can I download Norton Antivirus for Linux. I am trying for that since 1 week but in vain.Tell the Url from which I can download freely.i tried in synmantec but i cannot suceed. thanks for all and cheers prasad

There is a version of antivirus for Linux from Norton!!! I've never heard such a thing before. Sure, there is an antivirus for Linux out there but the likelihood of your system getting infect is very, very, very low. Your system is more likely getting DoS than a virus. If you use google to search for it, you would find it... (I've been using Linux for ages and never once get a virus! This is, after all, Linux, not MicroSuck.) taurus

1. There is no Norton for Linux, since Norton, (Symantec), is owned by MS, there never will be either. 2. If there was a Linux version, MS would never give it away. ("download freely") 3. Linux does not get "virus" infections, due to 99.99% of virus's being written specficlly for MS email clients. (It's only a matter of time tho.) 4. While not vuneriable to virus's at the moment, you can get nasty trojans and worms dropped on your Linux system, which you can protect yourself from with a good firewall.

You CAN get sophos for linux, as well as clamav. I use sophos here at work to check windoze users' files etc.

"(Symantec), is owned by MS..." Where can I find more about the acquisition of Symantec by Microsoft? Or the majority shareholder interest of Microsoft in Symantec? Really, I have never heard that. In the 1999 DOJ MS trial Gordon Eubanks (former CEO of Symantec) was a witness for the defense. " But the Norton Utilities Business is as good as ever. And there is is more competition than ever in that area. So I don't know how you could logically conclude that adding things to the operating system hurts that business." There wasn't any mention of Symantec as a holding of MS. Otherwise, the inclusion of a former CEO of Symantec would be worthless. Granted, Symantec had interests in Windows as a dominant platform, but that can be said of hundreds of other companies as well. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/transcripts/jun99/06-16-am.asp Yes, Symantec has a partnership with MS (as it does with every other company of any importantance, including Sun, HP, Apple, etc.).

Was basing my info on way back when the Norton un-delete and other utilities was purchased by MS, and Peter Norton announced he was selling to Bill and co. Was early to mid 90's or so. I'm sure there's been lots or corp re-structuring since then tho. As I understand it MS bought both Peter's old company and merged it with Symantec, or such. But what do I know, that was too many bytes under the bridge.

Well, for the record, I believe Norton was purchased 1990 by Symantec (Symantec had gone public in 1989). http://www.symantec.com/corporate/index.html