Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Secure Your PC's with McAfee Secure

By James Kent


McAfee, Inc serves as a computer security company with its headquarters located in Santa Clara, California, USA. Founded by John McAfee in the year 1989 under the name McAfee Associates this company markets software and provides security services to users of various fields. After passing under the ownership of various companies and undergoing a series of changes it got finally renamed back to McAfee. From the very past, McAfee Secure has continued to provide security-related technologies and solutions to the customers.

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 initiated a number of attributes one of which is Cloud Secure Program, a new service for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that provided additional cloud deployment security. McAfee Secure also added SiteAdvisor, passive intrusion detecting system. Due to increase in use of internet by teens and youngsters McAfee Secure introduced parental software named McAfee Family Protection in India. It helped the parents to keep track of the fact that how their children were connected to the internet and what they were browsing.

In the field of on-line shopping, McAfee Secure has reached a milestone. On-line shopping customers are always in the fear that their credit card securities will be tampered with. So, McAfee Secure started a website certification service called McAfee Secure that arms e-commerce businesses with what they need to build trust and increase traffic and online sales. The websites that show McAfee Secure are believed to be safe and secure to surf with. The upcoming technology is the mobile technology. Mcafee's stresses on mobile security also. They are always in the research to upgrade their technology to locate lost or stolen devices, and essential identity protection, to keep our money, credit, and personal information safe.

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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