About Symantec Security Response
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About Symantec Security Response
The strength behind Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition is Symantec
Security Response, formerly known as Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
(SARC). The increasing number of computer viruses, currently over 40,000
are known, requires effort to track, identify, and analyze new viruses and
virus technologies. Symantec Security Response researchers disassemble
each virus sample to discover its identifying features and behavior. With
this information, they develop a virus definition that Symantec products
use to detect and eliminate the new virus during scans. At least weekly,
and whenever a destructive new virus threatens, Symantec makes updated
definitions available.
Because of the speed at which new viruses spread, particularly over the
Internet, Symantec Security Response has developed automated software
analysis tools. With direct submissions over the Internet of infected files
from your Norton AntiVirus Quarantine to Symantec Security Response, the
time from discovery, analysis, and return cure by email is shrinking from
days to hours, and in the near future, to minutes.
