NortonLifeLock and Avast $8.6b deal gets provisional yes from UK regulator The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has given a provisional nod to the proposed merger of British cybersecurity company Avast and US rival NortonLifeLock. Action by Britain's market regulators has international ramifications; the CMA's interventions in the Arm-Nvidia deal were partly responsible for the cancellation of …
'Microsoft Defender, being part of Microsoft 365, can't be purchased as a stand-alone product. The CMA did say that user numbers taking advantage of Microsoft's solution are "both very high and growing very fast" but were not included in the analysis due to its inclusion in Windows.'
As the AV is included, the growing numbers reflect only the increase in Windoze subscriptions. Consequently this statement is pointless (all the more as the figures were not used).
Typical HMG departmental bloatspeak (or alternatively as W S Gilbert famously stated "merely corroborative detail to add artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative" The Mikardo (1885)
I'm confused. I thought Microsoft Defender came with windows and is activated whenever there's no other antivirus. Or is that Windows Defender, a completely unrelated product?
It's like Microsoft Teams - there are two versions - Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams. One is for personal use and is built into windows 11 and the other is part of some Microsoft 365 subs.
And then there's the 'microsoft account' which is not the same as a Microsoft 365 account, but does the same sort of thing as far as a user is concerned.
Frankly, I think Microsoft's products are as confusing as they are unreliable.
It will only take a couple years for the rot to spread, That mess ruins everything it touches. Big surprise that the majority of their revenue is from machines where they bribed the manufacturer to pre-infect them. I've had to mop up these things enough times, your "Average" user HATES Norton once they've been exposed to it, but it breaks your computer when it expires, you try to install a competitors AV solution, and in many cases when you try to uninstall it with anything other than the secret squirrel magic uninstaller, which the occasionally hide, or pretended dosen't exist. Worse, Windows/MS Defender has been trouncing them in AV tests for years, and is free in most cases.
Norton and McAfee both need to boiled in bleach and then repeatedly EMPed to ensure they don't zombie back again and wreck any more companies.
I have been trying to contact Norton since June/ July . Licence voided with 6 months to go to January 2023
EMAILED Tan no response.Emailed support and others no response sent a recoded delivery letter received by them on January 5 . No response
Have they ceased trading. I am using Sky VPN. Got attacked last year while on holidays took a lot to get that fixed.
If they had ceased why do they not have the decency to notify people Pi553d off by their actions
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