Nortonlifelock in talks to buy avast software.

[bob3160]

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

[Asyn]

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!

[RejZoR]

how the fate of free avast will definitely be removed like avira that was first bought by norton

Um, AVIRA Free is still there on official AVIRA webpage... Unless I'm missing something here...

[RejZoR]

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!

Well, if avast! Free will indeed stick around and technology would be shared between Norton, AVIRA and avast!, then there might be exciting times ahead. Norton and AVIRA both have interesting tech that would be nice to have in avast! and avast! also has capable tech that could end up in Norton and AVIRA. And having merged detection databases and cloud capabilities could put them faaaaaar ahead of competition. But I'm probably looking too optimistic in all this as it'll all just end up in Norton and they'll cannibalize all others into nothingness and then kill the products off. Just seen that too many times so far...

[wahyushikifujin]

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!

ok we will see how it goes

[digmor crusher]

https://uk.pcmag.com/security/135044/is-norton-planning-to-kill-free-antivirus

These AV companies keep merging because they can't compete with Microsoft Defender, eventually there will be 2 or 3 left with 1 or 2 free AV's left me thinks.

The only one to benefit from these mergers are the shareholders.

[bob3160]

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.

[NON]

Ondrej Vlcek, the cyber security mogul leading Avast into the big leagues
https://www.ft.com/content/8e0ba64b-c636-4cc8-b980-0a3161b4adcf
An excellent insight.

The link you provided led me to buy subscriptions, but if I go via Google search I can read the topic with the same URL. Strange.

The topic itself is a good read.

[bob3160]

Ondrej Vlcek, the cyber security mogul leading Avast into the big leagues
https://www.ft.com/content/8e0ba64b-c636-4cc8-b980-0a3161b4adcf
An excellent insight.

The link you provided led me to buy subscriptions, but if I go via Google search I can read the topic with the same URL. Strange.

The topic itself is a good read.

It's also available here,
https://californianewstimes.com/ondrej-vlcek-the-cyber-security-mogul-leading-avast-into-the-big-leagues/

[Charyb-0]

Ondrej Vlcek, the cyber security mogul leading Avast into the big leagueshttps://www.ft.com/content/8e0ba64b-c636-4cc8-b980-0a3161b4adcfAn excellent insight.

The link you provided led me to buy subscriptions, but if I go via Google search I can read the topic with the same URL. Strange.The topic itself is a good read.

It's also available here,https://californianewstimes.com/ondrej-vlcek-the-cyber-security-mogul-leading-avast-into-the-big-leagues/

This article could use some proofreading. How many different ways can they spell Mr. Vlcek's name? It's difficult to read starting with the first sentence.


What I get out of this is that 1000 people are going to lose their job.

[bob3160]

Ondrej Vlcek, the cyber security mogul leading Avast into the big leagueshttps://www.ft.com/content/8e0ba64b-c636-4cc8-b980-0a3161b4adcfAn excellent insight.

The link you provided led me to buy subscriptions, but if I go via Google search I can read the topic with the same URL. Strange.The topic itself is a good read.

It's also available here,https://californianewstimes.com/ondrej-vlcek-the-cyber-security-mogul-leading-avast-into-the-big-leagues/

This article could use some proofreading. How many different ways can they spell Mr. Vlcek's name? It's difficult to read starting with the first sentence.


What I get out of this is that 1000 people are going to lose their job.

Contact the writer. I'm only passing along the information.