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                                         Filed by Symantec Corporation. Pursuant
                                         to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of
                                         1933 Commission File No.:  000-17781
                                         Subject Company: Symantec
                                         Corporation


     The following is a description of certain slides that have been posted on
Symantec Corporation's web site, http://www. symantec.com:

     One slide entitled "Symantec Acquires AXENT" includes the following four
bullet points: "Strengthens enterprise focus", "Complements sales strengths",
"Expands product strategy", and "Financial deal summary", which includes two
subheadings, "Tax-free exchange of 1/2 share of Symantec stock for each share of
Axent" and "15.3 million shares".

     Another slide depicts a diagram showing six components of enterprise
security, including (1) virus protection, (2) content filtering, (3) intrusion
prevention (ID/VA), (4) firewalls and VPN, (5) 3A's (Access Control,
Authentication and Authorization) and (6) application security data (LDAP, PKI).
It also shows Symantec's presence in the first three of those segments and
AXENT's presence in the third, fourth and fifth segments.

     FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT: This information contains forward-looking
statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements to differ materially from results expressed or implied by this
press release. Such risk factors include, among others: inability to obtain, or
meet conditions imposed for, governmental approvals for the merger with Axent;
failure of the Symantec or Axent stockholders to approve the merger; the risk
that the Symantec and Axent businesses will not be integrated successfully; the
costs related to the merger; and other economic, business, competitive and/or
regulatory factors affecting Symantec's business generally.. Actual results may
differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements in this
press release. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors is
contained in the Risk Factors sections of the Company's previously filed Form
10-K for the year ended March 31, 2000 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
30, 2000.