Symantec Helps Digital Families

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Symantec unveiled plans for a nationwide initiative to address the rapidly growing needs of today's digital families and aims to narrow the gap between parents who have little to no familiarity with the Internet and their cyber-savvy children. Norton product customer experience veteran Marian Merritt has been named the company's first-ever Internet Safety Advocate and will helm this initiative.

According to a February 2007 Harris Interactive poll, about four in 10 teens(43 percent) report that their parents usually know what they are doing online, but do not have any rules about their activity, while 37 percent report that their parents have no idea what they are doing online.Furthermore, about four in 10 teens (43 percent) report that they haveexperienced some form of cyberbullying in the last year.

To aid parents in educating children about cyber safety, Symantec also launched today the Family Resource Web site (www.norton.com/familyresource), which includes tips, resources and information on the following topics:

"Symantec is committed to making sure every consumer - especially the millions of digital families who depend on technologies for their day-to-day lives - can be confident on the Internet," said Janice Chaffin, group president, consumer business unit, Symantec Corp. "As the industry leader, we are dedicated to safeguarding today's digital families by providing best-of-class Internet security software while also helping parents guide their children in staying safe online and making sure children are good cybercitizens."

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