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.
bobo ka bobita kahit iupdate mo pa mc afee mo di mo ko kaya!!!! sa dos mo lang ako matatanggal!!!
tanga.. wala kang alam. ang dali2x tanggalin ng autorun.inf.. bobo ka.. hahahahah walang alam noob.. format lang kc ang alam mo hahahahaha
halos lahat nagamit ko na din, crappy talaga ang mcafee… trusted av ko yung kaspersky at eset nod32, gamit ko na to sa matitinding virus.
mas bobo ka bobita, nagmamarunong ka nanaman.. technician ka lang… wag ka magmamagaling dito.. sa format ka lang magaling… ihostage kita dyan…
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What leads to reformatting are the changes a virus/the viruses makes on your system. Kaya kung maganda ang AV mo, detect agad ang virus, thus, preventing it to execute and do damages, saving you from reformatting your HDD.
@bobita – ikaw na din ang nagsabi. Kung alam mo lang kung gaano ka-delayed ang update ng McAfee compared to Kaspersky and NOD32 na almost every 30 minutes nagrerelease. Isa pang rason kung bakit di preferred ng mga users ang McAfee dahil sa pagiging resource hog (memory at malaking file size footprint).
Pero, who knows kung maire-resurface ng Intel ang McAfee? Only time will tell.
dunno about integrating an antivirus into a chip/processor, program ang antivirus, there is no means of storing it sa processor afaik(l2 cache lang ang memory meron sa processors). I read in one of the comments na pabagsak na mcAfee, baka nakita nila potential ng mcafee and gave them an offer they can’t refuse. Baka may balak buhayin ng intel ang mcAfee(somehow optimize it) and malamang lamang gawin nilang preinstalled yun sa custom computers nila; you’ll have a free AV, its up to you to use it or use another, but somehow it’ll make the deal a little bit sweeter… Or maybe sell it seprately…
Regarding sa virus na nakukuha through autorun ng removable storage, pwede idisable ang autorun. iwasan din ung pagdouble click sa mga drives(kasi minsan hindi explore ung default action, nkadepende sa autorun, kita yun pag ni-rightclick yung drive or folder), gamitin ung folder tree at ingat lang din, there is no AV that can guarantee 100% protection.
Marami rin namang magagandang free AV, I’m using avira right now and OK naman sya.
^avira is not for gamers. it sometimes deletes the exec files.
hoped they reviewed other AVs
BTW, see for TM’s Titanium product. =)
bwahahaha!!! kapag na-expire na ang license ng antivirus mo wala nang kwenta ang buong hardware mo!!! bwahahaha!!! kaya ko i-infect ang bios!!! bwahahaha!!! hindi ka na pwede mag-update ng bios kasi infected ka na!!! bwahahahaha-
(oops. nahugot yung plug sa socket)
This article’s suggested future wasn’t well thought out. If AV was to be fully built into a chip, then it would require FLASHING to update it. At the frequency that AV Definitions are released, we’d be flashing weekly.
Instead, I think they’ll likely build in some type of Rootkit prevention and similar pre-boot-stage hotiles. I don’t see that type of prevention negatively impacting performance.
It’s likely we’ll still need a file-level scanning app protecting our computers .. even if those apps are somewhat modified to work best in this new approach.
It’s good to know that they’re planning to have an AV software on a chip. However, how are they’re planning to do the updates of the Virus Definition Database once it is out in the market?
so cool, juz hope that they would somehow upgrade it so it can be worth it!!!!
Integrated sa Procie?.. not going to happen..