McAfee Brand Name Will Be Replaced By Intel Security

An anonymous reader writes "At CES 2014 today, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the McAfee brand name will be phased out and replaced by 'Intel Security,' which will identify Intel products and services in the security segment. The rebranding will begin immediately, but the transition will take up to a year before it is complete." The BBC reports that John McAfee is happy with the decision: "'I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet. These are not my words, but the words of millions of irate users. ... My elation at Intel's decision is beyond words.'"

I knew it

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always considered McAfee software to be nothing but useless, bloated, annoying, bug-ridden crap that causes more problems than it solves. That's why I use Norton.

He objected to the advertising slogan

[Anonymous Coward]

"McAfee murders viruses!"

Must-see video, how to remove McAfee

[Anonymous Coward]

How to remove McAfee Antivirus [youtube.com] featuring John McAfee himself.

So John McAfee's best work is now obsolete?

[ron_ivi]

This video he made on how to uninstall McAfee software http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg [youtube.com] in case anyone missed it before.

Re:Interesting...

[rvw]

Now, I'm no rocket surgeon, but why not schedule the scan for Saturday?

That prevents people from having a decent Tuesday lunch break.

Intel Security vs McAfee

[rccorkum]

I guess they couldn't get the domain pileofshit.com

Re:Interesting...

[kaiser423]

Because bad, bad, bad things happen when you miss a McAffee scan!!! Lots of computers are home/off or whatever over the weekend. At my previous place of employment, after being off the grid with my laptop for a couple of weeks, I came back and it couldn't update right since I was *SO* out of date, which we then fixed and got it to run. Then it ran back to back to back to back scans despite cancelling etc, the schedule would detect a missed scan and re-schedule a new one despite a fresh one having completed earlier in the day. My machine scanned continuously for over a week...IT eventually threw up their hands and just told me to deal with it.

Re:Must-see video, how to remove McAfee

[dyingtolive]

That's amazing. McAfee might be a dangerous unstable lunatic who's a menace to society, but he's MY kind of dangerous unstable lunatic who's a menace to society.

Re: Interesting...

[Anonymous Coward]

At least your hard drive will be Thetan free.

Re:I knew it

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly John McAfee is the heterosexual in that story.

Re:Must-see video, how to remove McAfee

[houstonbofh]

This video was clearly John McAfee's effective way to make Intel get away from the McAfee name: obviously Intel doesn't want to have drugs, half-naked women and guns associated with their product.

Because people might mistake them for GoDaddy!