Dr Solomon's Antivirus Toolkit was an antivirus suite which incorporated prevention, detection and repair for Microsoft MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows (up to 98), Novell, SCO Unix, Sun Solaris and OS/2.
[2] This move was to rival market leaders Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus and McAfee VirusScan.
Jerry Pournelle recommended it in his column for Byte magazine in 1992, and more recently wrote "Solomon's was unreservedly the best virus service around.
Later it became "Dr. Solomon's Software Ltd." in the UK, with similarly named companies in Germany, the United States and Australia.
[4] After some previous tension between the two software products,[5] on 9 June 1998, McAfee (then known as Network Associates) agreed to acquire Dr. Solomon's Group plc for $642 million in stock.