https://www.reuters.com/technology/nortonlifelock-talks-buy-avast-wsj-2021-07-14/
Yea i heard this news yesterday. maybe avast will be bought by norton. :‘( :’(
NortonLifeLock To Buy Avast In A $8 Bln Deal
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/nortonlifelock-to-buy-avast-in-a-%248-bln-deal-2021-08-10
Bad news.
So, this is it. This is a point where avast! goes to the same graveyard of everything Symantec has consumed in the past. We can also scrap the free version at this point too because everything that had free version and was bought by Symantec got scrapped pretty soon. This is why I never liked how avast! expanded and became super big. When so much money is involved sooner or later such stuff happens and it sucks. Maybe not for people shuffling money around, but sucks for users. Always has.
This is a point where avast! goes to the same graveyard of everything [b]Symantec[/b] has consumed in the past.Symantec was sold to Broadcom in 2019
https://uk.pcmag.com/old-news/122071/symantec-sells-off-name-enterprise-business-to-broadcom
Symantec, LifeLock, same shit, different name. They sold the brand, not the mentality. Not that avast!'s was all that brilliant in recent years to be honest, but at least they weren’t straight up shitty like Symantec/Norton/whatever.
I guess this is it. We can expect avast! as brand to be gone in few years and with it also its free version. Like every single thing Symantec bought in the past. I hate it as I like avast!, but I know it’ll happen.
Well, there goes the neighborhood. I guess I’m going to have to find a new antivirus software because I will NOT use anything that’s connected to that garbage company.
They sold the brand, not the [b]mentality[/b].The previous avast CEO came from Norton
With all respect to Vince Steckler, it felt that way too. And not in a good way. It was around that time they went all big and just become bigger and bigger at any cost and now selling it to someone even bigger apparently. It’s a shame because I thought avast! would become the biggest player and not hand itself over to any competitor.
Avast customer base, 435 million - Norton customer base, 80 million
Yeah, but who’s buying who here? Those numbers mean nothing if you’re getting bought by someone else, not buying that other company…
What it means is that Norton-Lifelock should be able to advertise a userbase in excess of 500 million.
how the fate of free avast will definitely be removed like avira that was first bought by norton
This is the latest information Available:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210810005994/en/NortonLifeLock-and-Avast-to-Merge-to-Lead-the-Transformation-of-Consumer-Cyber-Safety
Avast-Statement (regarding Avast Free): At Avast, free is part of our ethos. We have been offering our product free for twenty years because we believe everyone deserves the right to be free, safe, and private online. Thanks!
Um, AVIRA Free is still there on official AVIRA webpage… Unless I’m missing something here…
Well, if avast! Free will indeed stick around and technology would be shared between Norton, AVIRA and avast!, then there might be exciting times ahead. Norton and AVIRA both have interesting tech that would be nice to have in avast! and avast! also has capable tech that could end up in Norton and AVIRA. And having merged detection databases and cloud capabilities could put them faaaaaar ahead of competition. But I’m probably looking too optimistic in all this as it’ll all just end up in Norton and they’ll cannibalize all others into nothingness and then kill the products off. Just seen that too many times so far…
ok we will see how it goes