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Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.68 billion

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Intel Newsroom: News Stories: Intel to Acquire McAfee

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    Hyper-MeHyper-Me Banned Posts: 2,059
    I hope there is 7.679999999 billion dollars hiding in the McAfee offices somewhere, otherwise Intel just got taken.
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    DevilsbaneDevilsbane Member Posts: 4,214 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I saw this in the paper last week, it makes me scratch my head. Why would Intel want McAfee? Even if McAfee had an awesome program, I don't see how Intel expects to benefit from this.
    Decide what to be and go be it.
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    RobertKaucherRobertKaucher Member Posts: 4,299 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Conspiracy theory:

    They will begin building uber viruses that target only AMD based machines and only their software can clean easily.
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    kinggeorge1987kinggeorge1987 Member Posts: 62 ■■□□□□□□□□
    lol. Now thats a conspiracy theory. Who should we tell first ? Big foot or the tooth fairy ?
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    RobertKaucherRobertKaucher Member Posts: 4,299 ■■■■■■■■■■
    In all seriousness I was very underwhelmed when I heard this news. The guy from Intel went on quite a bit about the integrations of security into the hardware itself. So, perhaps there is something to this, but I just don't know.
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    kinggeorge1987 wrote: »
    lol. Now thats a conspiracy theory. Who should we tell first ? Big foot or the tooth fairy ?

    I'm sure that CNN and all the big new corps will have that under control... icon_lol.gif
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    Hyper-MeHyper-Me Banned Posts: 2,059
    RobertKaucher wrote: »
    In all seriousness I was very underwhelmed when I heard this news. The guy from Intel went on quite a bit about the integrations of security into the hardware itself. So, perhaps there is something to this, but I just don't know.


    McAfee's junk would have to be worth something as software, first. icon_lol.gif
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    sidsanderssidsanders Member Posts: 217 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Hyper-Me wrote: »
    McAfee's junk would have to be worth something as software, first. icon_lol.gif

    really... epo isnt bad, unless its poorly configured or the folks running it are clowns. still, the av is dreadful. i find a virus, i break out avast/avg/clamwin/avira. we went from sophos with looooow % of infections to crapafee and deal with some type of prob at least once a week.
    GO TEAM VENTURE!!!!
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    sidsanders wrote: »
    really... epo isnt bad, unless its poorly configured or the folks running it are clowns. still, the av is dreadful. i find a virus, i break out avast/avg/clamwin/avira. we went from sophos with looooow % of infections to crapafee and deal with some type of prob at least once a week.

    We just bought tech licenses for MBAM. Nothing like MBAM for virus removal purposes icon_wink.gif I honestly can't wait for us to move to Win7. I suspect that will reduce a number of our virus issues.
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Related webcast starting in 45 minutes: Cyber Defense Weekly: The Intel+McAFee deal | brighttalk.com
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    GAngelGAngel Member Posts: 708 ■■■■□□□□□□
    veritas_libertas wrote: »
    We just bought tech licenses for MBAM. Nothing like MBAM for virus removal purposes icon_wink.gif I honestly can't wait for us to move to Win7. I suspect that will reduce a number of our virus issues.

    I love MBAM. fixes 99% of problems that mcafee and symantec can't.
    Which coincidentally is 99% of all problems.
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    Michael.J.PalmerMichael.J.Palmer Member Posts: 407 ■■■□□□□□□□
    This is probably an attempt by Intel to try and combat the growing concern for hardware virus issues that reek havok outside of the OS. Either way, I can't say I'm a huge fan of it, I agree with the guy who made the comment about money being hidding away at the McAfee HQ. McAfee as a whole just isn't worth that much IMO, hopefully Intel can improve the quality of the software.

    I'm just shocked of the amount of PC's that come into the shop with huge virus problems (I mean common stuff too) that just sneaked past updated McAfee security suites without any problem. I'll take a free AVG, Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D, Avast! combination any day of the week to protect my PC over McAfee.
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    Hyper-MeHyper-Me Banned Posts: 2,059
    veritas_libertas wrote: »
    We just bought tech licenses for MBAM. Nothing like MBAM for virus removal purposes icon_wink.gif I honestly can't wait for us to move to Win7. I suspect that will reduce a number of our virus issues.


    Love MBAM. It always identifies viruses even if it cant get rid of them, in which case I can always boot into WinPE and delete them manually.

    If you keep UAC on, you will notice your virus issues basically disappear with Windows 7.
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    earweedearweed Member Posts: 5,192 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Hyper-Me wrote: »
    If you keep UAC on, you will notice your virus issues basically disappear with Windows 7.
    How about with Vista? Does UAC work as well for it?
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    Michael.J.PalmerMichael.J.Palmer Member Posts: 407 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Well, your problem was you were using Vista, icon_razz.gif.
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    earweedearweed Member Posts: 5,192 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Michael.J.Palmer wrote: »
    Well, your problem was you were using Vista, icon_razz.gif.
    I still use it cause I'm a rebel...
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    Hyper-MeHyper-Me Banned Posts: 2,059
    earweed wrote: »
    How about with Vista? Does UAC work as well for it?

    Yes. The only real changes in UAC from Vista to 7, were that they removed it from popping up in certain scenarios (in 7 administrative tools do not trigger UAC, they do in Vista) and they also added that cute little slider in control panel to modify the UAC settings in 7.
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    tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    earweed wrote: »
    I still use it cause I'm a rebel...
    Ehh. Vista worked fine for me. I never had any trouble with it.
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    tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    Just be thankful that Intel didn't buy Symantec aka Norton Antivirus :P Although I've heard that the later versions aren't actually as much of a bloated resource hog like they were before...
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Hyper-Me wrote: »
    If you keep UAC on, you will notice your virus issues basically disappear with Windows 7.

    That an IE8 in Win7 is sand-boxed vs. XP where it's not.
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    earweedearweed Member Posts: 5,192 ■■■■■■■■■□
    tiersten wrote: »
    Ehh. Vista worked fine for me. I never had any trouble with it.
    I still use it and will continue to use it for a while still.
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    earweedearweed Member Posts: 5,192 ■■■■■■■■■□
    tiersten wrote: »
    Just be thankful that Intel didn't buy Symantec aka Norton Antivirus :P Although I've heard that the later versions aren't actually as much of a bloated resource hog like they were before...
    It still is a resource hog but maybe not as bad as before.
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Are you referring to their consumer or enterprise product?
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    earweedearweed Member Posts: 5,192 ■■■■■■■■■□
    I know their consumer product is. I used to use it until recently. I don't know about the enterprise product. The consumer product blows. I could do nothing for 2 days except leave my computer on and it'll still scan and find "threats" and remove them. It also slows down startups a lot if it's set to autostart which an antivirus should be.
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    TheMechanicTheMechanic Member Posts: 77 ■■□□□□□□□□
    symantec enterprise = great, norton/mcafee = trash. Endpoint protection is a solid product. earweed say NO to vista ncool.gif
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    Hyper-MeHyper-Me Banned Posts: 2,059
    Symantec endpoint...solid?

    Its possibly the worst antivirus application I have ever worked with. Bot in terms of reliability and actually catching infections.
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    RobertKaucherRobertKaucher Member Posts: 4,299 ■■■■■■■■■■
    veritas_libertas wrote: »
    That an IE8 in Win7 is sand-boxed vs. XP where it's not.

    I no longer even use AV with Win7. I might install MSSE but I doubt that I will even bother with that.
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    RobertKaucher wrote: »
    I no longer even use AV with Win7. I might install MSSE but I doubt that I will even bother with that.

    I wouldn't be as likely to if my wife wasn't using it. She is more prone to clicking banners and stuff. She doesn't grasp the dangers in just clicking stuff randomly.
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    DevilsbaneDevilsbane Member Posts: 4,214 ■■■■■■■■□□
    veritas_libertas wrote: »
    She is more prone to clicking banners and stuff. She doesn't grasp the dangers in just clicking stuff randomly.

    Most people don't. OMG my computer has a virus! I better click this link quick without thinking about it so it gets fixed!!!
    Decide what to be and go be it.
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    earweedearweed Member Posts: 5,192 ■■■■■■■■■□
    My cousin got a virus and immediately got one of those "free" virus scanners. It took longer to remove the scanner than the virus.
    No longer work in IT. Play around with stuff sometimes still and fix stuff for friends and relatives.
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