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MSN and Network Associates Team Up to Help Secure Broadband

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 17 October 2003 - 10:47 · 5 comments & 467 views

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The MSNŽ network of Internet services, the world's No. 1 online destination, and Network Associates Inc. (NYSE:NET), the leading provider of intrusion prevention solutions, announced a worldwide relationship today that McAfeeŽ Security's anti-virus and personal firewall services will be available with the soon-to-be released MSNŽ Premium subscription service for broadband users in the United States. To help protect users against online security threats such as viruses and hacker attacks, MSN Premium subscribers will receive McAfee VirusScanŽ and McAfee Personal Firewall Plus desktop-protection products as part of their subscription service. In addition, MSN Plus and MSN Dial-up subscribers will be able to access trial versions of the services and purchase them through the MSN site for a discounted price.

"By delivering the best anti-virus and firewall capabilities available from the industry leader, MSN Premium will offer people comprehensive safety solutions at a tremendous value," said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN at Microsoft Corp. "Combined with other safety services such as strong parental controls, a flexible Pop-Up Guard for managing pop-up information and excellent junk e-mail filters, MSN Premium will offer customers outstanding protection from online threats."

Online safety is online consumers' No. 1 concern today, and security services are the feature they are most willing to pay for to help protect their PC and related information.* Broadband users, in particular, face additional online security risks because of their always-on connection.

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(3 replies) #1 NeoSoft on 17 Oct 2003 - 14:49
Hope that McAfee does better with this than what they did with their 2004 versions of everything that came out end of September and the start of this month!
#1.1 Spyder on 17 Oct 2003 - 18:17
whats wrong with the 2004 stuff? they merged their subscription based AV software with their home software. looks like they basically junked the old stuff. works great for me?
#1.2 NeoSoft on 17 Oct 2003 - 20:45
The 2004 versions keep crashing on 5 out the 6 systems I've got. Two out of the 6 have Windows XP Professional, the other three have Windows 98 & 2000 on them. QuickClean is one of the worst I've seen from McAfee. I'll go to have the system clean up a program I just uninstalled and it crashes while in progress. It is very slow even with 1GB of memory to work with & an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (I also tried it on a P4 3.2GHz with the same results).

McAfee was great last year, but this year it isn't worth a penny even!
#1.3 JaggedFlame on 18 Oct 2003 - 03:57
Norton sucks this year, too. The GUI elements seem unfinished, and the compressed file scanner totally slows down my computer to the point where I get disconnected from servers while they're waiting for it to scan a file I downloaded in a queue.
#2 norky on 17 Oct 2003 - 17:33
it's going to be the same crap as their 2004 retail stuff.

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