The initial 1982 release supports DOS 1.x and features the UNERASE utility. Norton Utilities for DOS and Windows 3.1 Version 1.0 Peter Norton's company was sold to Symantec (now known as Gen Digital) in 1990 and Peter Norton himself no longer has any connection to the brand or company. Release 2 came out about a year later, subsequent to the first hard drives for the IBM PC line. Peter Norton published the first version for DOS, The Norton Utilities, Release 1, in 1982.
The latest version of the original series of Norton Utilities is Norton Utilities 16 for Windows XP/Vista/7/8 was released 26 October 2012.
Norton Utilities is a utility software suite designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain a computer.
