Intel has bought out McAfee, why bother?

[Pack3t SynAck3r]

So perhaps you heard about McAfee being bought out by Intel. Yes that same brilliant McAfee who earlier this year who can claim they had a period of perfect protection after an anti-virus update. Any Windows XP machine that received said update had no chance of becoming infected after the update. The update somehow ended up deeming svchost.exe a malicious file and decided the best course of action was to immediately reboot the computer so the file could be deleted. Of course when the computer rebooted it would not boot into windows because many critical system services are dependent upon svchost.exe. So it crashed at least 2 million machines in one fall swoop. These machines of course could not be infected if they could boot up. But I digress....

So Intel decides it is beneficial for them to purchase McAfee for 7.7 billion US dollars. Why? I think Intel has been drinking too much of the mainstream Kool-Aid. McAfee sucks, let's be honest. They are a big name....that is about it. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on advertising, money that could have been better used improving a product that is below average for protection and absolutely abhorrent when it comes to use of system resources. They use old style "definition-based" protection, as do most of the other mainstream companies. American business sense over history dictates if people keep buying your shit there is no need to change anything because the time and resources necessary to do so would take away from the bottom line. I am linking to an article that gives several possibilities as far as to what Intel has planned. I discount any plan to integrate crap software into Intel's hardware. I feel sorry for the engineers who are going to be asked to do so. Intel seems like they want to jump into the security game according to the article in a wide based "cloud sense." If they think that overpaying for a useless and non innovative security company is somehow going to magically enable them to do that......well I am just glad I am am an AMD man. Any thoughts? I know a few of you should have an opinion. If you have something serious to contribute then please feel free, if you are going to be a jack-ass then please refrain.

Article link:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/why-d...llion/9347