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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: sekgrranin on July 17, 2021, 11:24:46 AM
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Do you have any information about this or is it a fake?
thank you
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/15/nortonlifelock_and_avast_confirm_merger_negotiations/
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Do you have any information about this or is it a fake?
There is plenty info online if you do a google search
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Do you have any information about this or is it a fake?
thank you
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/15/nortonlifelock_and_avast_confirm_merger_negotiations/ (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/15/nortonlifelock_and_avast_confirm_merger_negotiations/)
Statement re Possible Offer (eurolandir.com) (https://tools.eurolandir.com/tools/Pressreleases/GetPressRelease/?ID=3933493&lang=en-GB&companycode=uk-avast)
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Hello, thank you, I sometimes connect to a search engine, 8), my question was mainly to know if members of the forum had information on the of the quality and free of our favorite AV, I use Avast Free for over 10 years and I am happy
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Do you have any information about this or is it a fake?
thank you
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/15/nortonlifelock_and_avast_confirm_merger_negotiations/ (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/15/nortonlifelock_and_avast_confirm_merger_negotiations/)
Statement re Possible Offer (eurolandir.com) (https://tools.eurolandir.com/tools/Pressreleases/GetPressRelease/?ID=3933493&lang=en-GB&companycode=uk-avast)
Hello and thank you
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Right now, it's speculation on everyone's part.
Avast and Norton are prohibited from discussing the issue till it's resolved.
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Right now, it's speculation on everyone's part.
Avast and Norton are prohibited from discussing the issue till it's resolved.
heu.....It's a little more than speculation
https://www.darkreading.com/prnewswire2.asp?rkey=20210714SF44020&filter=3930
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Right now, it's speculation on everyone's part.
Avast and Norton are prohibited from discussing the issue till it's resolved.
heu.....It's a little more than speculation
https://www.darkreading.com/prnewswire2.asp?rkey=20210714SF44020&filter=3930 (https://www.darkreading.com/prnewswire2.asp?rkey=20210714SF44020&filter=3930)
As stated here,
"There can be no certainty as to whether any transaction will take place or the terms on which any Possible Merger may be agreed. A further announcement will be made if and when appropriate. "
Anything we post is speculation.
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Maybe from late August the merger product will be behaviour-based.
That is better as signature based product with a lot of FPs.
Will the Avast Freemium formula survive this merger or will it mean partially with more bloatware and more ads?
I have been supportive of avast's mission all the way, now wondering where this will lead us,
and whether we have to reconsider. What will be AVG's future seen to this merger?
We won't get answers until late of August I know, still free to ponder on certain possibilities and outcomes.
polonus
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I guess 'free to ponder' is another way of speculating. :)
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Hi bob3160,
For me a while without pondering on anything nears, so not further speculate.
As you, my good friend, always seem well informed, you will certainly be the first one to report here,
if anything gets near concretization.
Damian
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IF the merger were to take place the whole of the Avast community, and users will surely be affected; At this point, No one knows for sure just how.
Many will be following closely. ;)
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Hello friends, what I want to say is that I have been using Avast Free for 11 years and I am completely and totally satisfied with this security system. I accept all the po up and all the commercial proposals that appear on my screen from Avast. It's normal, nobody works for free! What poses a question to me, is our security future with the future merger. Obviously here also speculations, I indicate you another speculation:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones/
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Posting a link to s subscription only service isn't going to be read by many at all.
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Posting a link to s subscription only service isn't going to be read by many at all.
The article also has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.
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I'm only saying.... I wish Avast would NEVER EVER merged or partnership with Norton/Symantec.
Edit:- IF I'm not mistaken since the last CEO left Avast used to work for Norton/Symantec, before Ondrej Vlcek (Vlk) took over as Avast CEO
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I'm only saying.... I wish Avast would NEVER EVER merged or partnership with Norton/Symantec.
Edit:- IF I'm not mistaken since the last CEO left Avast used to work for Norton/Symantec, before Ondrej Vlcek (Vlk) took over as Avast CEO
There is no Norton/Symantec
Symantec's enterprise security business and name was sold to broadcom in 2019
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There is no Norton/Symantec
Symantec's enterprise security business and name was sold to broadcom in 2019
WOW!! I didn't know :o however, I STILL HATE Norton product and would NEVER touch it.
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Posting a link to s subscription only service isn't going to be read by many at all.
Hello.I am not a trader and I have never quoted a commercial link.You just have to click on the link to understand.I am referring to what indicates bob3160 on speculation.I showed that here too we can think of speculation, yet the reality often exceeds the fiction .
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Posting a link to s subscription only service isn't going to be read by many at all.
Hello.I am not a trader and I have never quoted a commercial link.
You just have to click on the link to understand.
<snip>
I never said you were.
Clicking on the link, effectively does nothing as you can't get to the article without having subscribed to the Washington Post. Yes, they have a limited free service, but you still have to subscribe to it to be able to read the article. I have absolutely no intent to subscribe just to read this article.
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I don't understand .... I am European and I don't subscribe to this newspaper, but I regularly read articles: I just have to click to accept the terms and conditions and I read. Example>>>>>>:Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli company to governments to track terrorists and criminals was used in successful hacking attempts on 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business leaders and two women close to slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and 16 media partners.
The phones were on a list of more than 50,000 numbers concentrated in countries known to monitor their citizens and also known to have been clients of the Israeli company NSO Group, a fast-growing and largely unregulated global leader in private spyware. industry, the investigation revealed.
The list doesn't identify who put the numbers on it or why, and it's unclear how many phones were targeted or monitored. But forensic analysis of the 37 smartphones shows that many display a close correlation between the timestamps associated with a number on the list and the initiation of surveillance, in some cases as brief as a few seconds.
Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based nonprofit journalism organization, and Amnesty International, a human rights group, gained access to the list and shared it with the news outlets, which conducted further research and analysis. Amnesty's security lab conducted the forensic analysis on the smartphones.
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Well I live in the UK and I can't read the articles and I wouldn't subscribe or if the options was there (I didn't see it) to accept their terms and conditions, I wouldn't give then that permission.
Though if the extract you have posted is a small part of the article, then as Bob said, I too don't think it is relevant (on topic) for this topic.
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Well I live in the UK and I can't read the articles and I wouldn't subscribe or if the options was there (I didn't see it) to accept their terms and conditions, I wouldn't give then that permission.
Though if the extract you have posted is a small part of the article, then as Bob said, I too don't think it is relevant (on topic) for this topic.
It isn't relative to this topic. It's actually spamming this topic.
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Hello friends, I am on many American and European forums, in my life, I have never "spammed" a topic, I was only referring to what Bob 3160 said here when he defined this topic by "speculation":
« Réponse #7 le : 17 juillet 2021, 14:04:15 »
and I posted this subject which is controversial in Europe because here too one can think of speculation. Starting from this postulate, everything is speculation.... ;)
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Hi sekgrranin,
Your example in posting #20 here is not speculative by any way, it is utterly and completely unrelated to what eventually may or may not materialize in London coming August, resulting in such a possible merger or not.
Whenever you want to you should start discussing NSO's Pegasus 'sec' with another thread, but that may even land you further to be in speculative waters. C' est le ton qui fait la musique. We can only guess at your intentions doing so.
And wasn't it Napoleon who said that history was just comprised of a bundle of merely fabulations and facts, that all parties involved could agree upon? How right l' Empereur was there, when he said that.
polonus
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Hello friends, I am on many American and European forums, in my life, I have never "spammed" a topic, I was only referring to what Bob 3160 said here when he defined this topic by "speculation":
« Réponse #7 le : 17 juillet 2021, 14:04:15 »
and I posted this subject which is controversial in Europe because here too one can think of speculation. Starting from this postulate, everything is speculation.... ;)
All forums have their own rules. Please respect this forums rules.
I didn't define the topic as speculation but some of the responses.
Please, stick to facts.
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Hello, I want to delete my topic but I do not see the procedure, thank you
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Hello, I want to delete my topic but I do not see the procedure, thank you
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That option is not available to you, it's also unlikely to be deleted due to others being able to have their say.
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Hello and thank you CraigB
:)
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That option is not available to you, it's also unlikely to be deleted due to others being able to have their say.
Can you lock this topic??
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That option is not available to you, it's also unlikely to be deleted due to others being able to have their say.
Can you lock this topic??
Only Avast Team Moderators can lock a topic.
If no one keeps responding to it, then it drops down the chronological order ;)
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That option is not available to you, it's also unlikely to be deleted due to others being able to have their say.
Can you lock this topic??
Only Avast Team Moderators can lock a topic.
Why lock a topic that is sure to have additional news once we get to the middle of August?
If no one keeps responding to it, then it drops down the chronological order ;)
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NortonLifeLock To Buy Avast In A $8 Bln Deal
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nortonlifelock-to-buy-avast-in-a-8-bln-deal-1030715476
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/nortonlifelock-agrees-to-buy-avast-for-as-much-as-8-6-billion
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/nortonlifelock-to-buy-avast-in-a-%248-bln-deal-2021-08-10
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NortonLifeLock To Buy Avast In A $8 Bln Deal
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nortonlifelock-to-buy-avast-in-a-8-bln-deal-1030715476
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/nortonlifelock-agrees-to-buy-avast-for-as-much-as-8-6-billion
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/nortonlifelock-to-buy-avast-in-a-%248-bln-deal-2021-08-10
Well now there's something that's gonna turn heads..... ???
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NortonLifeLock To Buy Avast In A $8 Bln Deal
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nortonlifelock-to-buy-avast-in-a-8-bln-deal-1030715476
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/nortonlifelock-agrees-to-buy-avast-for-as-much-as-8-6-billion
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/nortonlifelock-to-buy-avast-in-a-%248-bln-deal-2021-08-10
Ouch..!! :(
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It's a bit shock to see the company we loved so long get bought out...
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Norton acquired Avast and is official.
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Great. Now I need to find another antivirus program. I want nothing to do with Norton ever again.
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Great. Now I need to find another antivirus program. I want nothing to do with Norton ever again.
And I'm sure you're not alone. ;)
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Great. Now I need to find another antivirus program. I want nothing to do with Norton ever again.
And I'm sure you're not alone. ;)
Whilst I have never had any Symantec, Norton products, I have certainly avoided them.
We will just have to see how things progress/regress over the coming months. It would be strange/stupid to kill the goose having bought the golden egg. We will have to see how much independence/autonomy/control the Avast Brand has, it would be madness to try and change everything.
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Great. Now I need to find another antivirus program. I want nothing to do with Norton ever again.
And I'm sure you're not alone. ;)
Whilst I have never had any Symantec, Norton products, I have certainly avoided them.
We will just have to see how things progress/regress over the coming months. It would be strange/stupid to kill the goose having bought the golden egg. We will have to see how much independence/autonomy/control the Avast Brand has, it would be madness to try and change everything.
Jumping the gun before the horse has even left the barn makes no sense.
Until the changes that will occur have been plainly spelled out, speculation appears to be running ramped.
Hold your horses: Avast is still working well as it has for many years. For me, it will continue to protect
my systems as it has since 2003.
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This is the latest information Available:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210810005994/en/NortonLifeLock-and-Avast-to-Merge-to-Lead-the-Transformation-of-Consumer-Cyber-Safety (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210810005994/en/NortonLifeLock-and-Avast-to-Merge-to-Lead-the-Transformation-of-Consumer-Cyber-Safety)
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Avast-Statement (regarding Avast Free): At Avast, free is part of our ethos. We have been offering our product free for twenty years because we believe everyone deserves the right to be free, safe, and private online. Thanks!
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Ondrej Vlcek, the cyber security mogul leading Avast into the big leagues
https://californianewstimes.com/ondrej-vlcek-the-cyber-security-mogul-leading-avast-into-the-big-leagues/
An excellent insight.