Beyond.com Antivirus Center Bursts the Bubble! Center Helps Customers Combat VBS/Bubbleboy with Downloadable Software Products.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1999-- Internet Software Superstore Beyond.com(TM) (Nasdaq:BYND) today announced that it has posted links to the latest updates that detect the VBS/Bubbleboy worm infection on the company's Antivirus Center at http://www.beyond.com/support/antivirus.htm. Instant availability of digitally downloaded antivirus software See antivirus program. (tool) antivirus software - Programs to detect and remove computer viruses. The simplest kind scans executable files and boot blocks for a list of known viruses. allows consumers to take immediate steps to protect themselves against the latest viruses. "Beyond.com offers customers immediate solutions to combat the Bubbleboy virus An e-mail virus launched in November 1999 that affected English and Spanish versions of Microsoft Outlook running with Windows 98 or 2000 and Internet Explorer 5. It did not do any harm, but sent out an e-mail to everyone in the address list, which may have caused a mail storm in certain , with products and information," said Trinka Dyer, vice president and general manager of the consumer division at Beyond.com. Unlike previous worms transmitted through email, the VBS/Bubbleboy type of worm does not come as an executable attachment. Instead, it infects PCs as soon as the transmitting email message is opened, making users more susceptible to it than previous viruses. VBS/Bubbleboy is transmitted through an email message with the subject heading "Bubbleboy is back!" The links on the Beyond.com site allow Beyond.com customers who have purchased previous versions of McAfee's VirusScan and Symantec's Norton AntiVirus A popular antivirus program from Symantec. The AntiVirus function is available as a separate product for home and business users or as part of various packages that contain other utilities such as Norton SystemWorks and Norton Internet Security. See Norton Utilities. products to download the latest free updates that include detection of the Bubbleboy worm. The Beyond.com Antivirus Center also features leading antivirus software products and information for customers who have not yet purchased antivirus software products. About Beyond.com Beyond.com provides commercial, off-the-shelf software and related products and services to the government, enterprise, corporate and consumer markets. Visitors to the company's online store (http://www.beyond.com/) enjoy an expansive selection of software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Beyond.com offers more than 1.6 million software and other digital products, including software stock-keeping units (SKUs) for online purchase from such major publishers as Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp., Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., Network Associates Inc., Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. and Symantec Corp; hardware; computing devices; and digital images in different file formats, including jpeg, gif and mpf through a strategic marketing alliance with IMSI IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity IMSI International Microcomputer Software, Inc. IMSI International Mobile Station Identity (now International Mobile Subscriber Identity) IMSI Idaho Maximum Security Institution . The company has established strategic marketing alliances with America Online Inc., CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Excite@Home, Road Runner/ServiceCo, Yahoo! Inc. and ZDNet. Additionally, Beyond.com offers e-commerce solutions such as site design and construction, site operation, including transaction processing, physical and electronic order fulfillment, customer support, marketing, and merchandising support and reporting to software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs. Customers include Autodesk, Executive Software Inc., McAfee.com Inc., Symantec Corp., Systran Software Inc. Palm Computing, Compaq Computer and HP Shopping Village (a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard). The company has applied for federal registration of the marks BEYOND.COM and BEYOND DOT COM. Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ("BYND"). More information on the company can be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). |
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