News just came in that Intel is set to buy antivirus company McAfee for an estimated $7.68 billion, all in cold hard cash. Now that’s a bit of a surprise.
Intel’s revenue last year amounted to about $35 billion (with $4.4 billion profit) while McAfee made $2 billion (and $173 million in profit) last year.
This could mean that someday, all the Intel processors may come with security features that include a McAfee Antivirus. If that happens, it could spell the doom of all other antivirus softwares out there. You no longer need to get a separate antivirus because you desktop PC or laptop will come built-in with one.
Twitter: dodimar
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How good would that be? (Or how would that work?)
Mcafee is a “paid” subscription. If Intel buys McAfee and embed it on their procies, are they going to make it “free” or “paid” subscription.
McAfee for others are crap and slow, once embedded, would that mean it will make the procies crap and slow?
Well, no answers yet on my questions.. Just thinking out loud…
Woah!! Maganda sya sa mga indi maka-afford ng AV, pero panu ung mga Features na maganda sa ibang AV na wla ang McAcfee. T_T
walang kwentang antivirus. maganda lang sila magbigay ng package sa mga enterprise like meralco pldt at ang company namin. pero lagi nalulusutan ng autorun virus.
Twitter: jpcaparas
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I think the deal only went with the acquisition of Mcafee 2010. The 2011 version is still up for grabs.
Guess that’s another 35 billion next year, haha
Then AMD should buy Norton
Hopefully that will make start ups faster for every PC.
And who knows, this may be integrated with Intel’s upcoming mobile chips.
sana un kasperskey ang bilhin ng intel sa susunod…. mcafee kc madali lang ma virus pati mibigat sa system…hahah
ok naman ang mcafee especially yung virusscan enterprise 8.7i nila, if you know how to use it. alam yan ng mga nakagamit na. perpetual license pa.
unlike the common anti virus apps na you have to look for key or username:pass, etc.
try and see yung access protection nya
it can prevent/block exe and all extensions assoction from being altered, regedit and taskmanager from being disabled and all mcafee serivces and apps from being terminated. it can also be configured to prevent programs or anything from registering as a service or in autorun. dami pang ibang features na wala na iba.
http://mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/system_security/servers/virusscan_enterprise.html
if they could just make these antivirus progs to run on gpus, that would be fantastic.
Twitter: inots2pid
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how about microsoft’s security essential antivirus i think i would be much better if they use that in their chips and its free as long your using genuine o.s hmm sir yuga for you what is the best antivirus program?
“how about microsoft’s security essential antivirus i think i would be much better if they use that in their chips and its free as long your using genuine o.s hmm sir yuga for you what is the best antivirus program?”
Well there are other operating systems in use and if such a thing were to ever come to pass it would make it even more likely the Microsoft would continue to have a strangle hold that it has enjoyed and could even charge more for its operating system.
mc afee!!! what the hell…
yung virus scan enterprise nila parang nagbabasa lang ng file… i hope na mag improve ang mc afee pag nabili na ng intel… para sa akin ang mc afee ngayon ang pinaka panget na anti virus..
malupet sana kung ESET or others… im done with mcafee, startup pa lang talo na.
I’m guessing Intel’s upcoming motherboards will have an Antivirus submenu in the CMOS that lets the user scan for malware, rootkits and virus prior to booting the OS
Only cons would be where the virus definitions will be stored, hopefully separate from the BIOS flash storage to lessen the chance of failed flashing.
Twitter: Teknisyan
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This is bad news to all other anti-virus. But good for consumer, since this means a more secured computer for us, then this can also be a big challenge to black-hats… who want to make their name known by cracking the anti-virus in a chip concept.
ok toh, mas wla kwenta naman kaspersky at eset at avira at avg at panda at fsecure at norton.. parang nagbabasa lang ba? baka ndi mo alam pano gamitin hehehe
Twitter: hahaharvee
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I doubt intel would embed McAfee into their motherboard/procies in the future. Alam naman kasi siguro nila na maraming may ayaw sa McAfee.
Siguro, they will offer a free subscription bundle, or an enhanced feature on McAfee AV when installed on an Intel system (similar to Nvidia’s CUDA).
I recommend to Avast! instead that crappy McAfee!
I Trust it once but McAfee Failed me, Trust McAfee and you’re gonna end your PC to Reformat =_=’
Bad choice! They should go with ESET or Kaspersky! Ano ba yan!
At paano nalang ang MSE nila?
$7.68B for a company that earned $178M? And in cold cash. Mcafee is laughing all the way to the bank.
@loadex – I think Intel’s buying the IP and not after the revenue.
This is a bad deal. Watched CNBC as the news broke and commentators readily said that McAfee was the “smarter” one on the deal. That’s a polite way of saying Intel is dumb for buying them for $7.7 B.
Other people interviewed said that it doesn’t make sense since they are buying a company on the way down for such a big amount and on an industry that is very competitive.
I doubt AMD will do the same thing. The internet security industry is very competitive that separately buying an AV/internet security tailor-made for general consumers and corporate consumers would be better.
At papano naman mag update ng virus definitions pag nasa chip??
You can have the best AV software but if it isn’t always updated with the latest definitions – it’s worthless.
HAHAHA MAY YAYARIIN NA AKONG BAGO HAHAHAHAHA… DATI OS LANG NGAYUN CPU NA BWAHAHAHAHAHHAA
ung mcafee lng cguro ang may pinaka mababang offer sa lahat ng av companies kaya ito ung binili ng intel. hahaha
So one has to pay extra for every anti-virus enabled Intel chip?
kitang kita mga ndi marunong hehehe format lang ang lagi gawa kapag ndi alam hehehe khit anung anti vir pa gamit mo kung ndi ka marunong gumamit ng pc, wala din tsaka sa mga nag foformat kpag ndi kaya.. noobs.. there are lots of ways to remove a virus.. u just have to know where to look and what apps/tools to use..
avast? its more crappier kesa mcafee. eset? keys anyone? hehehehe
i fix pc’s and removes viruses for a living..
i’ve tried all of these antiviruses.. hindi mo pwede sabihin crappy ang isa ka nafail ka, it’s your fault, kc probably ndi mo na update ang antivir mo or may katangahan ka lng kaya navirus ang pc mo.. yun lang yun.