McAfee
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McAfee, Inc. Template:Nyse is an antivirus and computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It markets McAfee VirusScan and related security products and services, including the IntruShield, Entercept, and Foundstone brands.
The company was founded in 1987 as McAfee Associates, named for its founder John McAfee. Network Associates was formed in 1997 as a merger of McAfee Associates and Network General. In the year 2004, a major restructuring occurred. In the spring, the company sold the Magic Solutions business to Remedy, a subsidiary of BMC Software. In the summer of 2004, the company sold the Sniffer Technologies business to Network General. Also, the company changed its name to McAfee to reflect its focus on security-related technologies.
Among other companies bought and sold by McAfee (ne Network Associates) is Trusted Information Systems, which developed the Firewall Toolkit, which was the open source foundation for the commercial Gauntlet Firewall, which was later sold by McAfee to Secure Computing Corporation. Oddly, Network Associates, as a result of brief ownership of TIS Labs/NAI Labs/Network Associates Laboratories/McAfee Research, was highly influencial in the world of Open Source software, as that organization produced portions of the Linux, FreeBSD, and Darwin operating systems, developed portions of the BIND name server software, as well as SNMP version 3.
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External links
- McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com/)
- Network General (http://www.sniffer.com/)
- Remedy (http://www.remedy.com/)ja:マカフィー