The Industry Leaders in Anti Virus Software

Symantec, MacAfee, Computer Associates, and Trend Micro are just a few of the large companies that provide anti virus software.
There presence in the anti virus software competition is undeniable. Keeping your computer Virus free is why they are they the leaders in there market. These companies are the leading manufactures of the Anti virus software, and, here in the United States these companies have a hold on the market share of anti virus software.
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And not be left out Microsoft has now entered the competition. Microsoft, as well, has plans become a key player in this market. Microsoft acquired intellectual property and technology from GeCad software in 2003, a company based in Bucharest, Romania. They also acquired Pelican Software, which had a behavior based security as well as Giant Company Software for spyware and Sybari Software, which manages virus, spam, and phishing filtering.
Many of the industry leaders believe that Microsoft plans to join all the acquisition and integrated the software with its up and coming operating system Windows Vista. Though Microsoft has not yet released any real specific details, it is believed that all three technologies of the companies it acquired will be combined and it well integrated them into to its best operating system thus far Windows Vista.
With the technology and the internet constantly changing it difficult to predict exactly which direction this type software is headed. If there was a way to predict the direction of where this industry is headed you could be rich, but the fact of the matter is, there really is no way to for see of the future of this rapidly changing landscape. The direction of this type of software in unclear. The internet is not static it is dynamic and it’s landscape is constantly changing, thus the direction of this type of market software will also change with it.
The time spent it takes to repair infected computers can sometimes be mind bogglingly. The cost in just time and effort to clean infected computers from viruses is overwhelming. Companies and consumers will spend hours cleaning and protecting computers from viruses. Many companies may find themselves without the resources to match the efforts of those truly bent on creating havoc. Some virus companies are getting hundreds of new viruses a day! Moreover, the new viruses are getting “smarter” in that they propagate themselves quickly and they often hide themselves and are smart enough to move around in a system by renaming themselves in an effort to make it hard to remove them.

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