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My guess is that they will be able to use their existing OEM relationships to push for McAfee to be installed by default (and paid for, not just a trial) on more and more computers.

McAfee also seems to be moving into different areas of computer security lately (PCI scans, etc), so it's not just anti-virus. I am not sure what % of their business this is though.



I thought unwanted default installs are the only way McAfee ends up on computers anyway.


If that's what it's called when network admins put on their default build images, then yes.


And corporate sales (writing this from a corporate PC with McAfee installed).

At least it's not obnoxious.


but it does bring a machine to its knees compared to the Microsoft Security Essentials product




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