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Intel Pulling the Plug On McAfee/MX Logic Anti-Spam (mcafee.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-the-circle-of-life dept.

New submitter d4nimal writes: Intel today announced that it is killing the MX Logic/McAfee/Intel Security spam protection service (PDF). The last date of service is January, 2017. This comes on the heels of numerous outages and a general rise in user and admin dissatisfaction. Intel purchased the service as part of its McAfee acquisition in 2010. MX Logic was bought by McAfee less than a year earlier.

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  1. Re:Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as... by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No whooshing ... the MBA wankers call it "leveraging synergies". Selling you both the problem and the cure is very lucrative, as it ensures you can "monetize the product lifecycle throughout its various phases while having complementary product offerings providing multiple revenue streams from the same user".

    Let's face it, probably more malware and spam has been passed through x86 machines than any other platform on the planet. Intel definitely had skin in the game.

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  2. Re:Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I work for Intel. At the time that this purchase was announced, there was a huge push internally for chip security. This was not that long after Joanna Rutkowska at Invisible Things Labs had discovered yet another SMM security hole. This leads me to believe that the VP who pushed for this acquisition somehow thought that we'd be able to take advantage of McAffee's "software security" technology to somehow improve "hardware" security. Of course the VP who was involved was largely a moron (Rani Borkar), and fortunately got pushed out very recently so this move does not surprise me.