Re: Symantec goes Cannibalistic

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:39:48 +0000 (UTC)
From:                   security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>

> One other product appeared in December of 1990 of which I had heard 
> rumors. Its release foreshadowed a new direction the antivirus industry 
> would take in 1991. The product was Norton AntiVirus. 

I am Peter of Nort.  Resistance is futile.  Prepare to be assimilated.

Over the next year or two I believe Symantec ate about 18 companies and Central 
Point ate a dozen.  Then (sometime in 92 or 3?) Symantec ate CP.  Eventually I 
figured that Symantec had absorbed roughly 45 other AV products--without 
noticeable improvement in their AV tech.

(The fact that Peter, almost up to the day Symantec renamed their recently 
purchased PC AV proggie "Norton AV," had been going around saying that 
computer viruses were an urban legend, was hilarious.)

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