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• Cameron Diaz could wreck your PC, McAfee warns

  Cameron Diaz's next film could easily be titled "There's Something About Malware."

• Intel to buy McAfee for $US7.68 billion

  Intel said Thursday it plans to acquire security vendor McAfee in a cash deal valued at about $US7.68 billion and aimed at enhancing the chip maker's mobile strategy.

• Intel to buy security vendor McAfee for $7.68 billion

  Intel said Thursday it plans to acquire security vendor McAfee in a cash deal valued at about $7.68 billion and aimed at enhancing the chip maker's mobile strategy.

• Intel's McAfee acquisition a mobile play

  Intel's acquisition of security company McAfee could help the chip maker make a splash in the handheld and embedded markets, in which the company has struggled to establish a presence, according to analysts.

• Intel-McAfee deal could spark shareholder lawsuits

  Shareholder lawsuits may be looming over the proposed Intel acquisition of McAfee, with at least two law firms signaling they are looking into whether McAfee's board of directors acted in the best interests of shareholders in approving the deal.

• Intel moves beyond 'just the chip' with McAfee buy

  After trying to push its way into the increasingly lucrative consumer electronics market for the last few years, Intel hopes that adding a security offering will be just what the market needs.

• Finjan sues McAfee, Symantec over patent claims

  Finjan has sued five rival security companies, including Symantec and McAfee, claiming it holds crucial patents used by popular antivirus products and security services.

• McAfee adds mobile security with Trust Digital purchase

  McAfee sees the mobility writing on the wall, and it recognizes that the technologies its customers rely increasingly on smartphones and other mobile technologies to conduct business. McAfee announced that is acquiring Trust Digital as part of a strategic focus to deliver the tools IT administrators need to effectively manage and secure mobile devices.

• McAfee to acquire Trust Digital to further mobile security

  McAfee Tuesday said it's signed an agreement to acquire privately held Trust Digital as part of its strategy to expand into the mobile security arena, the enterprise sector in particular. The acquisition price for Trust Digital was not disclosed.

• Bugs and Fixes: Security Woes for Windows, McAfee, Firefox

  The bugs keep marching in, with Microsoft, McAfee, and Mozilla all having to deal with serious security-related software problems in the past month.

• McAfee and Citrix partner to secure virtual desktop

  McAfee and Citrix have announced a strategic partnership and collaboration agreement to make secure virtual desktop and make it scalable for large enterprise deployments, according to a release. The collaboration will enable Citrix XenDesktop customers to extend management of desktop security to virtual environments using the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform.

• McAfee to compensate bug affected Aussies

  McAfee will offer free 12-month security subscriptions and tailored packages to Australian customers affected by its recent bungled update.

• Diary of a mad McAfee antivirus victim

  As if McAfee's bad antivirus update last week wasn't bad enough, some customers were none too happy with how the security vendor's tech support handled the situation either.

• McAfee offers security review to compensate companies for bad update

  McAfee today announced it would offer business customers affected by last week's flawed update a free one-year subscription to its automated security assessment service.

• McAfee promises to reimburse consumers for bad update

  McAfee will reimburse its consumer customers for "reasonable expenses" they have incurred dealing with last week's faulty antivirus update, the company said.