See here.
Ha, my post was first ;D
Mine: 1:54:08
Yours: 1:54:47
It is just that that topic keeps all these interesting snippets together.
Lol…!! ;D
asyn
Hi folks,
So McAfee Security Scan Plus now scans on processor level,
polonus
The $48-per-share price represents a 60 percent premium over McAfee's Wednesday close of $29.93. McAfee shares surged $17.17, or 57 percent, to $47.10 in midday trading Thursday. Intel shares slipped 63 cents, or 3.2 percent, to $18.96.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/19/AR2010081902146.html?wpisrc=nl_tech
I guess Symantec wasn’t good enough ???
They could say a lot of things… But, nowadays, we can achieve better protection with free products… We don’t need an Intelfee ;D
Maybe Intel machines won’t run without McIntel AV installed…??? ;D
asyn
Then goodbye Intel and Hello AMD. ;D 
By all accounts, according to something I read today in Micro Mart, they are trying to push the AV when they sell Intel Chips.
Hi all…
No disrespect (in any way) intended, fredvries, but when I first read your subject line, I thought you were joking.
Regards…
Hi ardvark,
But there must be a scheme behind this and it must have something to do with protection or media file restriction. Mind you Windows Dos had no protection against a program performing that what the programmer could make it do if the user had willfully installed it on a Windows machine it would have full access to all of the user data there, the first added security in this respect appeared with Windows Vista and with Vista there also appeared some specific Media Files protection and I think Intel needs McAfee there or v.v. to implement what the Big Media lobby wants to have implemented when ACTA has been hammered out and becomes law. Circumventing restrictions on a processor level will be much more difficult. It is purely speculation on my part, but it is not that far fetched speculation. Let us wait and see for what the Intel strategists wanted McAfee on board or rather on the MoBo,
pol
I don’t see how they could include an AV product in a processor or a chipset. How could it be updated, bug fixed, or upgraded? They could program it to store the virus defs on the hard drive and access them from there but updating the program itself would be difficult. I suppose they could do it by BIOS flashing or something similar but many people wouldn’t know how to do that or would be afraid to.
They will likely leave the structure of McAfee the way it is and reap the profits that it provides. I’d look for more and more retail computer systems with Intel processors to come bundled with McAfee instead of Norton and I don’t think that will be a good thing. AMD based systems will probably stop bundling McAfee and that may benefit AMD. Maybe we’ll see an AMD-Symantec partnership. I personally would choose that over Intel-McAfee.
I think it’s just business. They won’t ‘join’ technology. But will sell both (together).
Hi Tech,
As I read on the Internet now:
bringing software closer to silicon will provide a real advantage for consumers and businesses. Beating back the tide of malware proliferation by changing the game on the bad guys is an exciting proposition.If it is just used for that purpose the reduce malware proliferation, I am all for it, but there could be other more sinister implications as well,
polonus
In the article I read it stated - They aren’t intending to include it on the chip; it is a foot in the door, when buying an Intel processor it gives them the opportunity to try to sell you the AV.
McAfee the product will continue selling as it does now also.
Worse for Symantec ;D
Hi Polonus…
The big guys are getting bigger, no doubt, and the overall number of players are getting fewer but I’m hard pressed to see what interest Intel has with McAfee, unless there are plans to in some way to further “merge” software with hardware, which wouldn’t surprise me. :
I hadn’t researched it but I didn’t think McAfee was in such a shape that it required someone to buy them out. ???
Regards…