- Feb 23, 2018
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No, they are not! There are more not sold. ESET (Big player in market), G-Data, F-Secure.
NortonLifeLock to Buy Avast for as Much as $8.6 Billion
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GData and ESET, F-secure are also still alive and kicking.
- Feb 23, 2018
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G-Data is very stable and has a very good BB, a good machine learning engine (deepray) and firewall. F-Secure has a great BB engine. Eset has the best signatures in industry and the second best advanced heuristics (only kaspersky has a little better heuristics that can fight new malware), a good machine learning engine, an IPS system, a very customizable program, an HIPS (that with granular rules improve very much indeed), a ransomware engine that is improving this year. BB engine and protection agains unkown malware need and will improve. For the next version they will keep improving, i can bet on that
Julian RO
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- Aug 5, 2012
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Except Bitdefender which is still half european half american as far as I remember.
Oh? I thought it was still fully European, with the founder still being the main shareholder.
Edit: Tried to do some research into it, and it seems that the British fund Vitruvian has a 30% stake in Bitdefender. Still European, just not the in the way most people expect.
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- Jun 24, 2016
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Y'all guys remember the discussion we had a while ago, when Microsoft Defender started taking over the business? We agreed on something back then: in order to compete, antivirus companies would have to unify or merge. It's happening. Norton has acquired a huge database with all the antivirus companies they've bought, and it's because Microsoft is eating them all. I believe Windows 11, when stable, will kill a few more security companies.
- Aug 30, 2015
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This seems like a big move. I used Avast for nearly a decade and since use WD. Has Emsisoft been bought yet? I have been out of the scene for awhile.
- Jun 21, 2011
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Ah yes, you're right. Avast is banned permanently from my systems since when corrupted the Windows 10 Start menu, Cortana, and all the processes bound to Windows 10 UI, and I had to clean install everything.
So, as someone here said, Norton acquired Avast (and AVG) only for their customers.
But I would prefer if Norton just stick which one product instead ok keeping all of them separated.
Emsisoft is still its own independent, yet relatively small, company on the market. I am using is now for its features and interface that Microsoft Defender is lacking for my personal uses.
- May 26, 2014
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That's not how this industry works pal.
They won't sell Bitdefender to Kaspersky unless Romania is a member of NATO
- Aug 21, 2020
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it's funny that all this to try to match kaspersky, norton is becoming the disney of antivirus buying, i don't think that's good for the security market either.
I was thinking more of a McDonald's--trying to cover as much user base as possible to maximize profits.
KFC, classic friend chicken yet available everywhere in the world.I was thinking more of a McDonald's--trying to cover as much user base as possible to maximize profits.
Nightwater
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- Jan 26, 2021
- 69
Now whoever decides to buy Norton gets the full package (Avast, Avira and BullGuard)
Nightwater
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- Jan 26, 2021
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Nobody is interested in Emsisoft, their user base is very small.
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