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Symantec, Yahoo team on security

By Joris Evers, CNET News.com
July 25, 2006
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Symantec-Yahoo-team-on-security/0,130061744,139264586,00.htm

Symantec and Yahoo plan to announce on Tuesday a partnership designed to help secure consumers online.

The arrangement between the two companies will include "some new security offerings," according to an e-mail sent to reporters by Yahoo public-relations representatives on Monday. Yahoo and Symantec officials declined further comment.

News of the new tie-up comes shortly after Yahoo rival AOL started testing a new security offering, dubbed Total Care, which it created largely created in partnership with Symantec foe McAfee.

Yahoo and Symantec have a history of working together, on antivirus scanning for Yahoo's Web-based e-mail service, for example. However, users of the AT&T Yahoo Internet access service are currently offered security software in partnership with CA.

Symantec has many partnerships to get its products onto consumer PCs. These include a deal with Google to bundle a trial version of Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition with its Google Pack and an arrangement with Adobe Systems to advertise Norton alongside Adobe PDF reader downloads.