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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2021, 11:11:13 AM »
Yea i heard this news yesterday. maybe avast will be bought by norton. :'( :'(

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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2021, 06:42:49 AM »
So, this is it. This is a point where avast! goes to the same graveyard of everything Symantec has consumed in the past. We can also scrap the free version at this point too because everything that had free version and was bought by Symantec got scrapped pretty soon. This is why I never liked how avast! expanded and became super big. When so much money is involved sooner or later such stuff happens and it sucks. Maybe not for people shuffling money around, but sucks for users. Always has.
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« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2021, 08:33:44 AM »
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This is a point where avast! goes to the same graveyard of everything Symantec has consumed in the past.
Symantec was sold to Broadcom in 2019

https://uk.pcmag.com/old-news/122071/symantec-sells-off-name-enterprise-business-to-broadcom


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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2021, 12:54:01 PM »
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This is a point where avast! goes to the same graveyard of everything Symantec has consumed in the past.
Symantec was sold to Broadcom in 2019

https://uk.pcmag.com/old-news/122071/symantec-sells-off-name-enterprise-business-to-broadcom

Symantec, LifeLock, same shit, different name. They sold the brand, not the mentality. Not that avast!'s was all that brilliant in recent years to be honest, but at least they weren't straight up shitty like Symantec/Norton/whatever.

I guess this is it. We can expect avast! as brand to be gone in few years and with it also its free version. Like every single thing Symantec bought in the past. I hate it as I like avast!, but I know it'll happen.
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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2021, 01:15:09 PM »
Well, there goes the neighborhood. I guess I'm going to have to find a new antivirus software because I will NOT use anything that's connected to that garbage company.

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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2021, 01:42:10 PM »
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They sold the brand, not the mentality.
The previous avast CEO came from Norton

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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2021, 02:46:37 PM »
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They sold the brand, not the mentality.
The previous avast CEO came from Norton

With all respect to Vince Steckler, it felt that way too. And not in a good way. It was around that time they went all big and just become bigger and bigger at any cost and now selling it to someone even bigger apparently. It's a shame because I thought avast! would become the biggest player and not hand itself over to any competitor.
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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2021, 02:50:35 PM »
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They sold the brand, not the mentality.
The previous avast CEO came from Norton

With all respect to Vince Steckler, it felt that way too. And not in a good way. It was around that time they went all big and just become bigger and bigger at any cost and now selling it to someone even bigger apparently. It's a shame because I thought avast! would become the biggest player and not hand itself over to any competitor.
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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2021, 03:00:13 PM »
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They sold the brand, not the mentality.
The previous avast CEO came from Norton

With all respect to Vince Steckler, it felt that way too. And not in a good way. It was around that time they went all big and just become bigger and bigger at any cost and now selling it to someone even bigger apparently. It's a shame because I thought avast! would become the biggest player and not hand itself over to any competitor.
Avast customer base, 435 million - Norton customer base, 80 million

Yeah, but who's buying who here? Those numbers mean nothing if you're getting bought by someone else, not buying that other company...
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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2021, 03:07:15 PM »
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They sold the brand, not the mentality.
The previous avast CEO came from Norton

With all respect to Vince Steckler, it felt that way too. And not in a good way. It was around that time they went all big and just become bigger and bigger at any cost and now selling it to someone even bigger apparently. It's a shame because I thought avast! would become the biggest player and not hand itself over to any competitor.
Avast customer base, 435 million - Norton customer base, 80 million

Yeah, but who's buying who here? Those numbers mean nothing if you're getting bought by someone else, not buying that other company...
What it means is that Norton-Lifelock should be able to advertise a userbase in excess of 500 million.
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Re: Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2021, 04:29:50 PM »
how the fate of free avast will definitely be removed like avira that was first bought by norton