Intel plans to acquire McAfee for a jaw-dropping $7.68 billion. Intel is no stranger to the computer security industry. They sold their own anti-virus product to Symantec in 1998. It’s too early to say what the impact of this acquisition will mean to McAfees customers, but there will no doubt be some happy McAfee shareholders today as the price rises to its highest level since the late 1990s.Read more in this article on the Naked Security website.”]
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