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To: Joanna Tsang who wrote (2197)	3/20/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Wigglesworth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6021

New Anti-Virus Titles Will Be In Full Bloom This Spring (03/20/98; 1:49 p.m. EST) By Paula Rooney, Computer Retail Week Two new titles will soon enter the hotly contested anti-virus software market at retail. Leading publishers Dr Solomon's and Network Associates (formerly McAfee Associates) are launching enhanced anti-virus offerings this spring. Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Deluxe, which is due next month, is the company's first deluxe offering. It includes a full year of free updates and automatic online updating. The package also features an enhanced user interface, a multimedia tutorial, and improved NetGuard technology to protect against viruses transmitted from the Internet. It will also let users schedule virus scans. The $59.95 title scans and disinfects more than 17,000 viruses and uses advanced heuristics technology to detect unknown macro viruses. Network Associates, based in Santa Clara, Calif., will launch in June a new version of its McAfee Associates anti-virus title, VirusScan 4.0, company sources said this week. The software upgrade features a redesigned user interface and integrates the company's WebScan Internet anti-virus technology to protect against hostile Java applets and ActiveX components downloaded from the Web, they added. Anti-virus titles are selling strongly at retail stores lately. According to figures from PC Data, in Reston, Va., McAfee's VirusScan 3.0 was the second best-selling Windows business software title in February, second only to Microsoft Windows 95. Symantec's Norton anti-virus titles also sold well, capturing the third, eighth, and ninth slots in that category's top 10 last month, PC Data reported. While tax titles dominate as the Internal Revenue Service April 15 deadline looms, all utilities, and especially anti-virus software titles, are moving well through retail. "Utilities sales are huge, and anti-virus sales are leading the charge," said Dennis Agresti, a buyer at Staples, in Westborough, Mass. "There are a lot more machines out there and a lot more people on the Internet." He added that recent net-to-zero offers from vendors such as Computer Associates and Network Associates are also driving sales. Staples, for instance, has offered McAfee's basic antivirus title at $9.95 for several months.

To: Joanna Tsang who wrote (2197)	3/20/1998 11:02:00 PM
From: AlienTech	Respond to of 6021

>>Where did you hear this rumor that NETA may missed the quarter? << NETA MISS? Not without all the first line staff dying first.. Now if I heard ambulances and fire engines going over to the building I would kinda wonder.. Dont think they are going to blow over like last year but not as bad as some are led to belive either. If they do miss then it migt be time to load up cause in 2 years not many others are going to be around.. Wonder why MSFT decide to use NETA scan in WIN98 instead of Norton AV as usuall.. Always made me suspecious why MSFT had a hook for certain products designed in already.. ps... If you had bought some mar 70 puts for a buck this morning, they were worth 5 1/2 at close :) or like 9 at one time in the day.. Its a good thing I dont watch as closely as I used too.. My heart you know.. All this excitement is not good for it..