Monday, May 14, 2012

McAfee Secure, Securing for Generations

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.

Mcafee secure as a company like Nitro Security(Oct 4, 2011) , Sentrigo(March 23, 2011), ten cube(July 29, 2010), Trust Digital (May 25, 2010), MX Logic (July 30, 2009), Solidcore systems(May 15, 2009), Endeavor(January 2009), Secure Computing(September 22, 2008), Reconnex(July 31, 2008),ScanAlert(October 30, 2007), SafeBoot Holding B.V(October 8, 2007), Onigma Ltd(October 16, 2006). On April 2010, a McAfee Secure updated an erroneous virus definition file. This resulted in the removal of svchost.exe file. The pcs that were supported by Windows Xp Service Pack 3 were mainly affected. The machines lost their network access and in some cases entered a reboot loop.

Mcafee Secure mainly stresses on security. They ensure that customers' computers are protected from the latest threats. With the help of Global Threat Intelligence McAfee secure tracks emerging threats, helping them to stay in a step ahead of mischievous people. Due to the increased use of the internet by the young generation, mainly the teenagers, McAfee Secure has introduced Family Protection software. This helps the parents to keep track of their children who are browsing through the net.

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 growing popularity of McAfee encouraged them to inculcate more features to their products. McAfee continued to serve as world's largest dedicated security company after its venture with Secure Computing. In the recent years McAfee has launched Cloud Secure program, a new service that provided additional security to cloud deployments. It included existing security controls, processes and certification and future cloud security standards, maintenance of automatic and daily security audits, detection and fixation of vulnerabilities, reporting the security status of their service, software updates and much more.




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