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Thanks IRazor for this one. Symantec have released a public beta of its popular Anti virus software "Norton Antivirus 2003" it weighs in at just under 35mb and is full featured version. Many new improvements and new features have been added to Norton AntiVirus 2003. Symantec are very interested in your feedback on this product. Symantec will give away 50 FREE copies of Norton AntiVirus 2003 to the first 50 beta users that submit undocumented bugs. Winners will be notified via e-mail.

Bear in mind that this is a beta so you could encounter problems. as stated on the Symantec beta site:

One of the main reasons we release beta software is for testing purposes. Beta means that the product is still under development and is likely to contain bugs. We would like your feedback on the product, but we do not provide support on beta software.

Please be sure to follow the installation instructions in the readme file that accompanies the beta software.

Download: Norton AntiVirus 2003 Beta (.zip 34.5 MB)
View: Norton AntiVirus 2003 Beta

E-commerce and content companies _ many of which were business-to-consumer concerns that were quick fatalities during the first wave of the Internet shakeout _ dominate the Internet company failures to-date.

Of the 862 shutdowns, 368, or 43%, are E-commerce companies, while content companies have a tally of 217, or 25%. Infrastructure, Internet access, and professional-services companies account for 16%, 10%, and 6% of shutdowns, respectively.

Over the past two months, shutdowns were dominated by Internet-content providers, infrastructure companies, Internet-services providers, and other providers of dial-up and broadband Internet-access service.

As companies disappear, many people would prefer to forget the excesses of the dot-com frenzy, when startups, often based on little more than a PowerPoint presentation, scooped up millions from investors before collapsing.

Webmergers.com has found, though, that a number of individuals are interested in remembering tales of such excesses.

The research firm, along with the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, last week launched an online archive designed to create a permanent record of the dot-com era. The Web site, www.businessplanarchive.org, encourages former Internet executives, employees, and investors to submit E-mails and other items from both failed and successful dot-com companies.

So far, more than 400 individuals have registered with the site and its researchers have been promised hundreds of business plans, says Webmergers president Tim Miller. In one case, an East Coast venture capitalist who was about to destroy 1,500 business plans called up researchers and offered instead to ship them to the Business Plan Archive, says Miller in his latest report.