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by RealBlackStuff » Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:00 am
So far they are still competing with one another.
Among others, Symantec has bought up and destroyed: Peter Norton (Norton Utilities), Sygate (Firewalls), Powerquest (Drive Image and Partition Magic), PC Tools (still independent, but slowly going to the dogs), and others I can't remember right now.
On McAfee (from wikipedia):
On April 21, 2010, beginning approximately at 2 PM GMT, millions of computers worldwide running Windows XP Service Pack 3 were affected by an erroneous virus definition file update by McAfee, resulting in the removal of a Windows system file (svchost.exe) on those machines, causing machines to lose network access and, in some cases, enter a reboot loop.
Mcafee rectified this by removing and replacing the faulty DAT file, version 5958, with an emergency DAT file, version 5959 and has posted a fix for the affected machines in their consumer knowledge base.
The damage was widespread: the University of Michigan's medical school reported that 8,000 of its 25,000 computers crashed. Police in Lexington, Ky., resorted to hand-writing reports and turned off their patrol car terminals as a precaution. Some jails canceled visitation, and Rhode Island hospitals turned away non-trauma patients at emergency rooms and postponed some elective surgeries. Australian supermarket behemoth Coles reported that 10 percent (1,100) of its point-of-sales terminals were affected and was forced to shut down stores in both western and southern parts of the country.
Now who in their right mind would buy products of any of these klutzes?
Not me, ever!
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