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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. Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as a firearms company buying a blood substitute firm.

    When I first heard this years ago I wondered if Intel was trying to strangle Microsoft OS's from both ends: crappy processor performance combined with bloated AV software that used up any cycles not currently being used to apply the latest updates or ship the user data back to the mothership.

    1. Re:Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative

      Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as a firearms company buying a blood substitute firm.

      Oddly enough, I can see the direct link between firearms and the market for blood substitutes, what with the bleeding which follows shooting.

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    2. 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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    3. 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.

    4. Re:Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as... by mridoni · · Score: 2

      Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as a firearms company buying a blood substitute firm.

      Well, actually it did make sense: installing a McAfee product instantaneously doubled your CPU requirements.

    5. Re:Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as... by hairyfeet · · Score: 2

      "monetize the product lifecycle throughout its various phases while having complementary product offerings providing multiple revenue streams from the same user"....

      Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Gabby Johnson for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech of authentic marketing gibberish!

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    6. Re:Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as... by mvdwege · · Score: 2

      I used to work for a reseller before they got borged by McAfee. It sucked even then; the false positive rate was not any better than other solutions, and admin tools to manage false positives were deficient.

      And when you had to call in their support, you'd have to explain how SMTP works to them, because up to level 3, they just talked complete bollocks.

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  2. Re:FEC put pressure on Intel by Coren22 · · Score: 2

    John came out with this instructional video on the removal of McAfee Antivirus:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Well worth watching.

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