Or perhaps zero mess, and this is just a good way to acquire all the patents and later they can merge either the companies or the teams behind them to produce what TB envisions. Tha scarier name I saw in their companies' list is BlueCoat. That is some nasty (good nasty) stuff.

URL: https://www.thomabravo.com/companies

EXITED

2015

yeah Symantec and Bluecoat merged.

I am still (proudly) using the McAfee Antivirus Enterprise edition on my Win Pro machine. It has (imho) the best options/flexibility. I also remember that the respective firewall was also super strong and very versatile but I can't get my hands on any latest version of it (I have the AV legally).

My understanding is that Windows Defender is the only decent engine nowadays, but that's second-hand anecdata I can't measure the bias of (I don't currently use Windows).

Windows Defender ATP is also on linux: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

Ahahaha Microsoft had to catch up to https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary

Nice!

Don’t think about McAfee as Provider of only consumer stuff...

Yeah, they provide enterprise-grade bloatware too.