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McAfee, Inc. () is an Antivirus and Computer Security company headquartered in Santa Clara , California . It markets McAfee VirusScan and related security products and services, including the IntruShield , Entercept , and Foundstone brands. The company was founded in 1987 as McAfee Associates, named for its founder John McAfee . Network Associates was formed in 1997 as a merger of McAfee Associates and Network General . In the year 2004, a major Restructuring occurred. In the spring, the company sold the Magic Solutions business to Remedy , a subsidiary of BMC Software . In the summer of 2004, the company sold the Sniffer Technologies business to Network General. Also, the company changed its name to McAfee to reflect its focus on security-related technologies. Among other companies bought and sold by McAfee (ne Network Associates) is Trusted Information Systems , which developed the Firewall Toolkit , which was the open source foundation for the commercial Gauntlet Firewall , which was later sold by McAfee to Secure Computing Corporation . Network Associates, as a result of brief ownership of TIS Labs / NAI Lab s/ Network Associates Laboratories / McAfee Research , was highly influential in the world of Open Source software, as that organization produced portions of the Linux , FreeBSD , and Darwin operating systems, developed portions of the BIND name server software, as well as SNMP version 3. IN THE NEWS In January 2006, McAfee agreed to pay a fine of $50M to the SEC for a practice known as Channel Stuffing that served to inflate their revenue to their investors. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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