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Once upon a time, Microsoft licensed a version of Veritas Volume Manager and used it in Windows 2000; Symantec now owns Veritas and wants Microsoft to pay for continuing to use that technology.

Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc., long-established rivals, have joined forces to crack down on illegal online software sales. Certain eBay sellers are the first pirates to have been targeted by the corporations. So far, five sellers have been named in three lawsuits.

Symantec, the security software corporation, beat Wall Street analysts' quarterly profit and revenue predictions with its Tuesday posting. This had the effect of sending the company's stock shares up by 3 percent.

Symantec apparently underreported the value of transfers it made of intellectual property to a pair of foreign subsidiaries after its purchase of Veritas.

The tech security company will pick up agent-less security compliance supplier bind view for about $4 per share.

When Symantec reported serious vulnerabilities were being found faster in Firefox than in IE, many in the tech world anticipated a strong response to the report.

The planned merger received the stamp of shareholder approval today in overwhelming fashion.

Symantec announced this week of the Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition. This new product is the next logical step in Symantec's overall computer security service. The beta version is currently available as a free download from Symantec's website https://www-secure.symantec.com/public_beta/.