Beyond.com Powers New Symantec International E-Commerce Stores; New Stores in Canada and The Netherlands Showcase Beyond.com's Technical and Marketing Prowess.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1999--

Internet superstore Beyond.com (Nasdaq:BYND) announced today that it has designed, built and launched new international software stores for Symantec Corporation (Nasdaq:SYMC) in Canada and The Netherlands.

The new Canadian stores cater to the unique needs of the Canadian marketplace, with one store presented in English, and one in Canadian French. The new Netherlands store is presented in the Dutch language and supports local currencies like other Beyond.com powered Symantec stores in the UK, France and Germany, which were launched last September. Beyond.com also powers Symantec's pan-European store that supports all major European currencies, enabling customers to purchase products for multiple European locations from one store.

"The new model for international e-commerce stores is one that allows customers to buy products in their own languages and currencies," said Jim Lussier, vice president and general manager of the Direct eCommerce Solutions Division at Beyond.com.

"Beyond.com has a proven track record in creating and operating domestic and international online stores for world leading publishers and vendors. We now manage online software stores for three of the top seven software publishers as determined by Softletter magazine and operate commercial websites on behalf of several e-commerce partners including Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett Packard's hpshopping.com, and 3Com Corporation," said Lussier.

"Our objective is to have a presence in every place our customers want to buy our software," said Remco Joon, Symantec's e-commerce manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "We are delivering on a commitment to create a worldwide chain of online stores and expect to open stores in South Africa and Sweden by the end of the year."

The new stores feature Symantec products for digital download and provide detailed information on technical support. They also contain contact information and links to other resellers.

Like their UK, France and Germany counterparts, the new international stores have been designed based on customer feedback and feature:

--   Areas dedicated to specific customers such as the small business,
     power and Macintosh user

--   A "try-before-you-buy" 30-day trial section for selected
     products

--   A 60-day money-back guarantee on all products

--   Phone and email support in local languages

--   Product updates and upgrades

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 Inc., IBM Corp., Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., Network Associates Inc., Sun Microsystems 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. The company has established strategic marketing alliances with America Online Inc., CNET 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").

About Symantec

Symantec, a world leader in Internet security technology provides content security solutions to enterprise organizations and helps companies manage and support workforces that use laptop computers and other mobile devices.

Safe Harbor Statement

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These include statements relating to expectations about Symantec's planned European, Swedish, and South African stores. Such statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Beyond.com's business is subject to risks including reductions in or cancellations of customer orders, changes in relationships with software suppliers, changes in relationships with strategic partners, changes in the product mix sold by the company, competition from other online software resellers or publishers, inability to raise sufficient capital on satisfactory terms, or at all, and other factors described in the company's filings with the SEC.