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Do any one of the following:Ĭlick Join Now to enable the Norton Community Watch on your Norton product.Ĭlick Maybe Later to join the Norton Community Watch later. Reports surfaced earlier this week of Symantecis decision with the first report appearing on the AppleInsider Web site.In some cases, Norton provides you an alert to join the Norton Community Watch that collects information about potential security risks from your computer and sends the information to Norton for analysis. Norton SystemWorks 3.0 is a bundled package of Norton AntiVirus, Norton Utilities, Dantz Retrospect Express Backup to back up files and Aladdin Spring Cleaning to uninstall unneeded programs. The current version of Utilities, version 8.0, retails for US$99.95. The software package rebuilds damaged disks, identifies and recovers files and defragments hard drives. Norton Utilities was first introduced to the Mac in 1988 as an application to find and repair hard disk problems. This decision is also not a reflection of a lack of customer need." "The decision was based solely on the strategic desire to focus Macintosh development resources on Internet security solutions.

Mohler said the decision is also not a sign of declining revenue from Mac-related products. Last June, the company released version 3.0 of the security solution with a new parental control feature that blocks Web sites that are inappropriate for viewing by children. Mohler mentioned that last yearis update to Norton Internet Security for Mac is a prime example of the companyis commitment to the Mac platform. "(We are) actively working on the development of these products." "Symantec plans to continue to provide comprehensive Internet security solutions for Mac users," Mohler commented. Symantecis remaining products for the Mac will now be Norton AntiVirus for Mac, Norton Internet Security for Mac and Norton Personal Firewall for Mac. "(We are) actively working on development of enhanced Internet security solutions to support the Mac operating system." "Symantec remains committed to the Macintosh platform," Mohler told The Mac Observer, Tuesday. Nancy Mohler, Symantecis senior product manager, said the decision to stop selling the two products was simply a "strategic decision" and should not be misconstrued as a sign that Symantec isnit committed to the Mac market. has confirmed it has stopped development of Norton Utilities for Macintosh and Norton SystemWorks for Macintosh and will now concentrate its efforts solely on Internet security products for the Mac. Symantec has told TMO that this is not the case.] Update: It has been reported elsewhere that Symantec will also be dumping the Windows version of Norton Utilities.