Report Outlines Symantec's Commitment to Green IT, Online Family Safety and Key Privacy and Data Protection Measures for Customers

CUPERTINO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/08/08 -- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today released its first Corporate Responsibility Report, underscoring Symantec's leadership in promoting sustainability for the software industry. The fiscal year 2008 report demonstrates the company's commitment to focus its attention on critical environmental, social and governance issues. Included in the report is a full materiality analysis that defines good governance, online safety, privacy, customer satisfaction, the environment, and workforce issues as Symantec's top corporate responsibility priorities.

"In today's operating environment, corporate responsibility is a non-negotiable imperative for businesses," said John W. Thompson, chairman and chief executive officer, Symantec. "Corporate responsibility is intertwined with Symantec's overall strategy of securing and managing the world's information. We are pleased to communicate our achievements to date and are working toward the goals we have set for fiscal year 2009 and beyond."

Highlights of Symantec's corporate responsibility performance include:

--  Applied Symantec's own green IT technology to enable data center
    consolidation -- resulting in energy savings of  more than 300,000
    kWh/month
--  Donated more than $16 million in cash and software to schools,
    nonprofit organizations and local communities
--  Provided necessary tools to consumers, businesses and communities to
    take action against cyberattacks and cybercrime
--  Launched a family online safety initiative
--  Increased employee volunteerism by more than 230 percent from the
    previous year through a 25th Anniversary volunteer challenge
--  Achieved LEED Gold Certification for new Culver City, Calif. campus
--  Established an executive steering committee to champion global
    diversity and inclusion initiatives
--  Adopted the Calvert Women's Principles(TM), the first global code of
    corporate conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing and
    investing in women worldwide
--  Appointed a chief privacy officer and formed a cross-functional
    privacy council
--  Continued integration of  the 10 principles of the United Nations
    Global Compact into company operations
    

"By sharing the progress Symantec is making toward operating more sustainably and responsibly, we are hoping to encourage other businesses to communicate and share their efforts," said Cecily Joseph, director, Corporate Responsibility, Symantec.