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The Sniffer Technologies business

"In the summer of 2004, the company sold the Sniffer Technologies business to Network General." Was Network General created at the same time to be an entity to which to sell that business? (The old Network General didn't exist, as it'd merged with McAfee to make Network Associates.) I.e., was it a sale, or was it more like a spinoff? Guy Harris 01:51, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This was sort of a management buy-out. It may be viewed as a involuntary spinoff, Sniffer wasn't quite bringing the profits the Mcafee BU in NAI was. The previous NG entity was revived for this. Milliped 14:38, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism

It is interesting to me that there is a criticism section of McAfee but not of Symantec. This is unbalanced and unfair, since Norton suffers from many of the same defects including slowing down the computer, much more so than McAfee (I have used both), and I seen Symantec anti-virus eat operating systems with the comment from customer support: "it happens sometimes". What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Either the criticism needs to be removed from McAfee or added to Symantec, otherwise we must assume that Symantec wrote this criticism and put it here as an advertising ploy.

Rcallen7 20:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nor is there any other criticism of other major Anti-Virus software. However, I wouldn't go as far as accusing Symantec. An irate customer or Symantec loyalist could have done that.

As an encyclopedia, the articles should be free from any bias. Although I am a McAfee user who is suffering from some of those problems, Wikipedia is not "Consumer Report." The criticisms should be removed. PhnxFyreG 19:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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 [[User:Rcallen7|Rcallen7]] 20:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
+Nor is there any other criticism of other major Anti-Virus software.  However, I wouldn't go as far as accusing Symantec.  An irate customer or Symantec loyalist could have done that.
+As an encyclopedia, the articles should be free from any bias.  Although I am a McAfee user who is suffering from some of those problems, Wikipedia is not "Consumer Report."  The criticisms should be removed. [[User:PhnxFyreG|PhnxFyreG]] 19:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)