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Bought by Thoma Bravo. Fits the pattern. You would think they would be trying to mash up some these companies to corner the SMB security market but they seem to keep all their companies distinct.

A few household names on the acquisition list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoma_Bravo#Transactions

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Like mashing up Sophos and McAfee? Can you imagine the mess?

Or perhaps zero mess, and this is just a good way to acquire all the patents and later they can merge either the companies or the teams behind them to produce what TB envisions. Tha scarier name I saw in their companies' list is BlueCoat. That is some nasty (good nasty) stuff.

URL: https://www.thomabravo.com/companies

EXITED

2015

yeah Symantec and Bluecoat merged.

No doubt there will be some downsizing before they get mashed up.

McAfee used to be something in the 1990s, now it is bloatware.

I am still (proudly) using the McAfee Antivirus Enterprise edition on my Win Pro machine. It has (imho) the best options/flexibility. I also remember that the respective firewall was also super strong and very versatile but I can't get my hands on any latest version of it (I have the AV legally).

My understanding is that Windows Defender is the only decent engine nowadays, but that's second-hand anecdata I can't measure the bias of (I don't currently use Windows).

Windows Defender ATP is also on linux: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

Ahahaha Microsoft had to catch up to https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary

Nice!

Don’t think about McAfee as Provider of only consumer stuff...

Yeah, they provide enterprise-grade bloatware too.

That’s an impressive collection of many popular household and enterprise brands. Never heard about Thomas Bravo before.

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