Tips and Information on Buying an Antivirus
With a seemingly endless amount of pc protection solutions to choose from, it can be hard to make sure you get the right product for you. Here are some top tips and valuable information which will help you make your decision...
Top Antivirus Blunders
Antivirus software companies are repeatedly in the public eye due to their popularity. it’s not uncommon for a product to have 100 million+ users in this space, so as you can imagine, slip ups in updates to algorithms are rather noticeable. Here’s some of the top antivirus blunders we have seen from PC protection companies in the 30 year history of the software -
Our first great antivirus blunder in the list was only very recently discovered; in December 2015, Dark Reading (a well respected news website in the computing security industry) reported that issues with memory allocatio…
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Biggest Antivirus Companies and Their Stories
The security software industry is worth around $100 billion dollars, so there is certainly room for some big companies and great stories.
The biggest company in the security software space is Symantec, the company behind Norton Internet Security and antivirus products, is valued at a cool $16 billion dollars and turns over $6 billion annually. Symantec had humble beginnings, founded by Gary Hendrix in 1982 with a grant from the National Science Foundation. In 1984, it was acquired by another software company, C&E Software, starting a long line of acquisition for the then small bus…
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