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Fri 10 Oct 2009McAfee sees no threat from free security tool
A SENIOR executive with McAfee, the largest dedicated security software firm, has said that Microsoft’s release this week of a suite of free security tools is unlikely to shake up the market.
“The free software is not the interesting thing; it’s how protected are you and how much global intelligence goes behind what you are putting on your PC,” said David Quantrell, president for McAfee in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “ So if your detection rates are 60 per cent but it’s free, I’m not sure how interesting that is versus 98 or 99 per cent.”
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