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McAfee.com jumps 267 percent in first trading day
News McAfee.com closed up 32, or 267 percent, to 44 in its IPO Thursday, after it priced shares at $12 (£7), well above the initial range of $6 to $8 a share. According to McAfee's regulatory filings, most of its revenue is concentrated in reseller...
[December 3, 1999, 13:40]
Network Associates pulls McAfee bid
News Network Associates, citing newly unearthed accounting inaccuracies, has withdrawn its bid for an additional stake in its McAfee.com subsidiary. Because of the anticipated restatement, Network Associates, which already owns 75 percent of McAfee.com...
[April 25, 2002, 16:33]
Network Associates boosts McAfee bid
News Antivirus software maker Network Associates has raised its bid for McAfee.com after the latter's rejection of an earlier offer. Network Associates spun off McAfee three years ago at the height of the dot-com boom.
[April 11, 2002, 7:31]
McAfee patents software-as-a-service
News Security software maker McAfee.com this week revealed that it has been granted a patent covering its method of delivering software updates over an Internet connection. However, Srivats Sampath, co-inventor of the technology and president and chief...
[August 8, 2001, 15:35]
McAfee accepts Network Associates offer
News After several months of negotiations, McAfee.com appears to have finally accepted a proposal to rejoin parent company Network Associates. A special committee of McAfee.com's board of directors on Friday described as a fair deal the latest offer...
[August 23, 2002, 16:06]
Symantec security products hit by high-risk flaw
Talkback McAfee Vulnerabilities found in 2005: 23 http://secunia.com/search/? search=mcafee NOTE: McAfee/Norton/Symantec are all the same company, so collectively one Norton Vulnerabilities found in 2005: 24 http://secunia.com/search/?
[December 21, 2005, 13:44]
Email worm exploits 11 September
News According to antivirus company McAfee.com, the worm starts a mass mailing to all people found in Microsoft's Windows and Outlook address books. But according to McAfee, the programming is buggy and it fails to work on many systems.
[September 11, 2002, 15:44]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback Furthermore; because you can't tell where McAfee actually fetches the updates ("from behind the scenes"), you can't effectively include that site in the trusted sites - "*.mcafee.com" doesn't seem to work.a bad case of bad "dumbing down" of users...
[October 25, 2005, 12:09]
McAfee: beware sponsored search results
News Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask.com were all tested by experts from McAfee SiteAdvisor, which reports on Web site security. All the major search engines return "risky" Web sites in their search results for popular keywords, according to a report by...
[May 15, 2006, 15:40]
Trojan horse targets AOL subscribers
News Thursday's warning comes after McAfee.com, which makes security software, noted a 100 percent increase in the virus over the past three weeks. AOL has not seen an increase of infected members internally, but is nonetheless heeding McAfee.com's...
[February 1, 2001, 16:08]
Bugs at Internet speed?
News On Wednesday, an Oklahoma coal and natural resource venture reported that an update from McAfee.com had disabled 250 of the firm's machines for most of the day. The number of unique visitors on McAfee's Web site spiked from an average of 350,000 a...
[November 6, 2000, 9:38]
US Report: McAfee Online - next-generation portal?
News and Excite, Network Associates -- McAfee Online's parent company -- has millions of users. Web-based services such as Oil Change are a powerful draw to the McAfee site, but Network Associates also plans to license its products to other portal sites.
[December 9, 1998, 10:05]
IM viruses finally come of age
Talkback It took me nearly four days to reestablish some kind of functionality on my PC Not to forget to mention that automatic updates from Windows XP and McAfee virus and Firewall plus where on. I have collected information about "Bropia" and found...
[April 5, 2005, 14:04]
Antivirus flaw crashes Exchange servers
News Network Associates confirmed on Thursday that in the past two days, four customers have been affected by a problem in its McAfee GroupShield 5.2 antivirus software for Exchange 2000 servers. But Microsoft's support teams assessed that the problem...
[June 13, 2003, 8:06]
OneCare makes a splash
News Symantec and McAfee have both announced new products to rival OneCare. At the same time, McAfee lost 3.3 points and Trend Micro dropped 1.3 points. Microsoft was second, followed by Trend Micro with 8.9 percent and McAfee with 7.1 percent.
[August 14, 2006, 8:25]
McAfee: Yahoo search most 'risky'
News According to McAfee, overall, on Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, Google, and AOL, sponsored searches returned more risky results than "organic" searches. Out of the top five search engines, Yahoo returns the riskiest sites for users, according to security...
[June 5, 2007, 15:11]
Text of FBI 'Melissa' warning
News In addition, leading virus detection utilities (including Symantec {http://www.symantec.com}, McAfee {http://www.mcafee.com}, and Trend Micro {http://www.antivirus.com}), when updated properly after March 26, 1999, reportedly detect and clean this...
[March 29, 1999, 8:59]
McAfee Excels itself with security glitch
News For a brief period last Friday, McAfee's security tools killed more than viruses. An error in McAfee's virus definition file released on Friday morning caused the company's consumer and enterprise antivirus products to flag Microsoft's Excel, as...
[March 13, 2006, 7:45]
Is Apple's security honeymoon over?
News It is not that they are impervious; they are targeted less," said Craig Schmugar, virus research manager at McAfee. Overall, only a few currently known worms, viruses and Trojans target the Mac, McAfee's Schmugar said.
[March 1, 2006, 10:20]
Relaxed holiday attitudes help BadTrans worm
News By Saturday, Goostree said, McAfee.com had intercepted several hundred copies of the worm. Known as BadTrans.B, the worm is spreading mainly due to people's relaxed approach to security during the holiday season, said April Goostree, virus research...
[November 27, 2001, 9:07]
