Intel's biggest ever buy is going ahead The European Commission has approved Intel's buyout of McAfee – as long as the chip giant allows other companies access to its technology. One of the Commission's concerns was that Intel, by embedding security on its chips, would effectively exclude competitors' products from the market. Intel has promised to make …
Please make it happen that someone has the sense to ensure, from this day and ever after, until the day of final judgment, that it will always be at least theoretically possible to completely exorcise the hell-spawn that is McAfee, and its spawn in turn, from the swollen belly of Intel. Please please please.
Thank you.
I can't see how this can stop all malware, so even if it stops say 90% of malware, all that will happen is the malware writers will adapt to use the methods in the 10% that get past Intel. So by the following year, Intel will be stopping the minority of malware.
All Intel will end up doing is creating a pressure for change away from methods of malware writing that are stopped by Intel, towards methods of malware writing that get past Intel's latest marketing gimmick.
If Intel put McAfee security on their chips, the only people who should be worried are the punters, who think their PC is now safe from viruses and the likes.
It could be worse, it could have been Symantec, but still ,the rest of the antivirus market have no worries that their products will no longer be needed.
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