3 posts and columns on antivirus software

Intel Gets into Protection Racket, Buys McAfee for $7.7 Billion

in News on August 19, 2010 at 6:03 am PT

Intel announced its largest acquisition to date this morning, and it has little to do with the chipset market it has dominated for decades. The chipmaker said it has agreed to buy antivirus software company McAfee in a $7.7 billion acquisition that will expand its security offerings.

Premier Continues Proud Tradition of Diebold E-Voting Screw-Ups

in News on August 22, 2008 at 4:58 pm PT

So the hundreds of votes that were dropped in Ohio’s March primary elections? The ones that Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, insisted were caused by faulty antivirus software and not a critical source code error? They were caused by a source code error.