Norton Utilities 2010 v14.5.0 + Trial Reset About Antivirus Type Public (NASDAQ: SYMC) Industry Computer software Security software Founded Sunnyvale, California, U.S. (March 1, 1982 (1982-03-01)) Founder(s) Gary Hendrix Denis Coleman Gordon Eubanks Headquarters 350 Ellis Street,[1]Mountain View, California, U.S. Area served Worldwide Key people John W. Thompson, Chairman Enrique T. Salem, CEO James Beer, CFO Mark Bregman, CTO David Thompson, CIO Greg Hughes, CSO Products Norton AntiVirus Norton 360 Norton Internet Security Symantec Endpoint Protection Enterprise Vault Veritas Cluster Server Altiris Client Management Suite Veritas Storage Foundation Brightmail Gateway Symantec Data Loss Prevention Symantec Ghost NetBackup BackupExec Symantec Control Compliance Suite Symantec Critical System Protection Revenue USD 6.2 billion (2009), ▲ 5% from 2008[2] Operating income USD -6.473 billion (2009) ▼ 1080% from 2008[2] Net income USD -6.728 billion (2009) ▼ 1551% from 2008[2] Total assets USD 10.645 billion at 2009-04-03 ▼ 41% from 2008[2] Total equity USD 3.947 billion at 2009-04-03 ▼ 64% from 2008[2] Employees 18,500 (2010) Divisions List of mergers and acquisitions by Symantec Website Symantec.com Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is the largest maker of personal computer security software. Founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix with a National Science Foundation grant, Symantec was originally focused on artificial intelligence-related projects, including a database program. Hendrix hired several Stanford University natural language processing researchers as the company's first employees, among them Barry Greenstein (professional poker player and developer of Q&A). In 1984 Symantec was acquired by another, even smaller computer software startup company, C&E Software, founded by Denis Coleman and Gordon Eubanks and headed by Eubanks. The merged company retained the name Symantec, and Eubanks became its chief executive officer. Its first product, Q&A, was released in 1985. Q&A provided database management and bundled a word processor. In August 1990, Symantec purchased Peter Norton Computing, a developer of various applications for DOS. Symantec's consumer antivirus and data management utilities are still marketed under Peter Norton's name.