http://www.gstock.com/quote/mfe.html GStock alerts for Mcafee, Inc. (MFE) en-us Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:00:00 -0400 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:00:00 -0400 GStock RSS Feed http://www.gstock.com/quote/mfe.html GStock.com Supercomputer announced on Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 that a SELL alert has been issued to Mcafee, Inc. (MFE). 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 (formerly known as Network Associates) is Trusted Information Systems, which developed the Firewall Toolkit, which was the free software 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 Labs/Network Associates Laboratories/McAfee Research, was highly influential in the world of Open Source software, as that organizati roduced portions of the Linux, FreeBSD, and Darwin operating systems, developed portions of the BIND name server software, as well as SNMP version 3.On April 5, 2006, McAfee bought out SiteAdvisor, a service that warns users if downloading software or filling out forms on a site may obtain malware or spam. In January 2006, McAfee agreed to pay a fine of US$50 million to the SEC for a practice known as channel stuffing that served to inflate their revenue to their investors.McAfee has released two new security packages, McAfee VirusScan Plus and McAfee Total Protection. McAfee Total Protection is the new security suite, containing all of the McAfee security tools, while McAfee VirusScan Plus contains the basic security needs (antivirus, firewall, and antispyware). Both these products are based on McAfee's new technology, codenamed 'Falcon' which was released on August 1st 2006. They are meant to compete with Symantec's Norton 360 and Microsoft's Windows OneCare. They debuted alongside an updated Internet Secury Suite. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:00:00 -0400 http://www.gstock.com/quote/mfe.html