McAfee Brand Name Will Be Replaced By Intel Security

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday January 7, 2014 @03:44AM from the onward-to-tarnish-a-new-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At CES 2014 today, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the McAfee brand name will be phased out and replaced by 'Intel Security,' which will identify Intel products and services in the security segment. The rebranding will begin immediately, but the transition will take up to a year before it is complete." The BBC reports that John McAfee is happy with the decision: "'I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet. These are not my words, but the words of millions of irate users. ... My elation at Intel's decision is beyond words.'"

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Re:Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-07 04:20 · Score: 5, Interesting

Panda is linked with Scientology. That a very good reason not to get it.
Re:Interesting... by Nos. · 2014-01-07 04:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

McAfee may not be what I'd recommend for home use, but I would for enterprise. Their suite of tools and being able to pull together a very accurate and real time picture of a huge environment makes it very worthwhile. That, and a properly configured agent and virus scan shouldn't interfere too much outside of doing a regular full scan, and even then, the computer should still be usable, if a bit slower.