Symantec Australia appoints Scholastic New Media as a new distribution partner for retail and education markets

SYDNEY --NSW - October 2, 2002 -- Symantec Australia has appointed software distributor Scholastic New Media as a national distributor for Symantec's consumer products to drive its presence in its key consumer markets, with particular emphasis in the education sector.

Scholastic New Media will distribute Symantec's consumer product line throughout Australia, encompassing all categories: Internet Security (Norton Internet Security, Norton AntiVirus and Norton Personal Firewall); Problem Solving (Norton SystemWorks, Norton Utilities and Norton Ghost); Productivity (pcAnywhere and WinFax Pro); and Small Business Security Solutions (Symantec Client Security, Symantec AntiVirus multipacks and Symantec Firewall VPN Appliance).

"With Scholastic New Media's knowledge of local and regional markets, Symantec will broaden its reach across Australia through its network of retail and education resellers," said Danielle Errera, Director, Channel Operations, Symantec in Australia and New Zealand. "One of Scholastic's key strengths is its extensive knowledge of the education market as they have been responding to school and home education needs for many years. Through this relationship Scholastic New Media will now be able to provide its retail and education customers with reliable solutions to meet the changing demands of Internet security."

With over 1,200 active retail accounts around Australia, Scholastic New Media has long been associated with book and software publishing for the education sector.

"We are delighted to be representing Symantec throughout the retail and education channels," said national manager for Scholastic New Media Ron McGregor. "We aim to represent the best available products and Symantec's leading Internet security solutions are synergistic with our portfolio of products. We look forward to working together to strengthen Symantec's presence across Australia."

Symantec Australia will continue to work with both Tech Pacific and Express Data for the distribution of Symantec's consumer and enterprise solutions across the consumer, corporate, education and Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) markets.

About Scholastic New Media
Scholastic New Media is a specialist distributor and publisher of educational computer software dedicated to interactive learning. Scholastic distributes many acclaimed educational software titles and leading innovative multimedia products to retail and education markets throughout Australia.

Scholastic has always been at the forefront of educational technology, responding to changing curriculum requirements and home education needs. Our expanding range of over 300 software and multimedia products shows Scholastic's commitment to the future and direction of education.

About Symantec
Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security software and appliance solutions to individuals, enterprises and service providers. The company is a leading provider of client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and virtual private network, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security services to enterprises and service providers around the world. Symantec's Norton brand of consumer security products is a leader in worldwide retail sales and industry awards. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in 38 countries. For more information, please visit www.symantec.com.au

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