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Ensuring Computer Security with McAfee Secure

By James Kent


With the gradual advancement of facilities offered by internet more and more people of different age groups are seeking to the internet for fulfilling their needs. And with the use of internet virus infection comes for gratis. People access internet unaware of the fact that their computers might become prone to malicious attacks. But thanks to the number of antivirus software available in the market. They provide a guard to the malware or spam entries to our system. One of such software is McAfee Secure owned by McAfee Company.

With the passage of time McAfee Secure has achieved in diversifying itself from just client-based antivirus software to other security based product lines by incorporating in their system network desktop encryption methods. On April2, 2003 got hold of IntruVert Networks with the help of which they could focus on intrusion prevention. It included the feature of not only detecting malicious attacks but also blocking them. McAfee Security has included the features of firewall, file encryption, and public key infrastructure in their product lines.

The product lines released by McAfee Secure were incorporated with passive intrusion blocking system. This could just include detecting and reporting about the threats or blocking them if the situation calls for. They also ensured all possible ways for upgrading their software they launched in the market. McAfee Secure also bought Site Advisor that warned users from downloading articles from sites which were infected with malware or spam. McAfee Secure also bought Safe Boot which at once was leading providers of encryption software.

In the midway McAfee faced a fall through in their service when millions of computers which had Windows XP Service Pack 3 got affected by an erroneous virus worldwide resulting in the removal of a Windows system File thereby causing a disrupt in their network access and a generation of a reboot loop. McAfee Secure rectified this problem by removing and replacing the DAT file that was causing error with another DAT file. They also made available to the user knowledge information regarding the fix of this problem.

The Safe Boot Acquisition allowed McAfee Secure to deliver endpoint, network, email, data security as well as reduce the risk factor associated. McAfee Secure serves to users in various fields be it home, office or business. Each product line of McAfee Secure has its own individual success. The growth of McAfee Antivirus has outreached the product line provided by other companies. So it wouldn't be wrong if we say that McAfee delivers best security product lines.




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