Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion

Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by javery on Thursday August 19, 2010 @09:03AM (#1617213)

My guess is that they will be able to use their existing OEM relationships to push for McAfee to be installed by default (and paid for, not just a trial) on more and more computers.

McAfee also seems to be moving into different areas of computer security lately (PCI scans, etc), so it's not just anti-virus. I am not sure what % of their business this is though.

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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by Tichy on Thursday August 19, 2010 @09:12AM (#1617236)

I thought unwanted default installs are the only way McAfee ends up on computers anyway.

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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by buro9 on Thursday August 19, 2010 @09:38AM (#1617319)

If that's what it's called when network admins put on their default build images, then yes.

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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by GFischer on Thursday August 19, 2010 @09:58AM (#1617377)

And corporate sales (writing this from a corporate PC with McAfee installed).

At least it's not obnoxious.

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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by easyfrag on Thursday August 19, 2010 @11:57AM (#1617703)

but it does bring a machine to its knees compared to the Microsoft Security Essentials product

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