Tag archive: PC Tools

In an effort to measure the online scam susceptibility, a new survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by PC Tools finds Americans consumers are astonishingly willing to give up their personal information when lured with free offers, with some 55 percent of American respondents indicating they would likely provide personal information online to redeem a prize after completing a survey. Response rates for other test scenarios… Read More

Technology companies often commission public opinion research or surveys to substantiate a need for their products and services, usually presenting the “independent” findings as some kind of scientific evidence that consumers really ought to give them some cash. Although firms don't usually exert direct control over the surveys—preferring to leave that to the professionals—without the commissions many of these silly consumer… Read More

Information Protection and Authentication of Texas (IPAT) has filed a patent infringement suit against 22 companies—including Microsoft, Symantec, CA, F-Secure, McAfee, Kaspersky, Sophos, Novell, and PC Tools—for infringing on a pair of patents issued in the mid-1990s regarding applications security and integrity. The first patent cited, 5,311,591, involves a method for authorizing what resources on a computer a particular… Read More

Security company Symantec has reached into its wallet and spent $695 million on MessageLabs, with plans to pull into technology into its Symantec Protection Network Team. MessageLabs is a messaging and security company. MessageLabs customers will be moved to the Symantec Protection Network Team, then to a new Symantec SaaS (software-as-a-service) product group. John W. Thompson, chairman and chief executive at Symantec, said:… Read More

Symantec has a great reputation in computer security, and now it’ll have a bigger impact in the consumer market, as well as the emerging market, with the acquisition of consumer PC security company PC Tools. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2008, but Symantec would not release financial details. PC Tools will operate under its own name as part of Symantec’s consumer business unit. Symantec group president of… Read More

Statistics gathered by Ireland's Threat Expert automated threat analysis system find that Russia has surpassed both China and the United States in production of viruses, malware, and other malicious software. According to Threat Expert, Russia now accounts for 27.89 percent of malware, while China accounts for 26.52 percent. The United States is in third place with just under 10 percent. Threat Expert concludes that the demise of the… Read More