Both Symantec and McAfee already offer security software for Windows-based mobile devices.
If it can gain traction it could be disruptive to some of the major Internet security companies such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro.
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The company is successfully competing with traditional stalwarts such as Symantec and McAfee, and has already captured 31% of the US B2C antivirus market.
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Sophos is primarily an end point anti-virus company competing with larger vendors like Symantec, McAfee (Intel), and Trend as well as several dozen smaller vendors like Kaspersky Labs, Eset, GFI Sunbelt, and AVG.
But that does not take away from the fact that Kaspersky, while a hell of a lot smaller than Symantec and McAfee is growing its market and the two US household names are not.
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Symantec competes with McAfee in the security software market for consumers as well as businesses, while its major competitor in storage software market is EMC-acquired Data Domain.
Expect a major battle between the Redmond machine and traditional security vendors such as McAfee and Symantec.
The Bellevue, Wash, company announced Wednesday that it filed patent infringement complaints against companies like McAfee, Symantec Corp.
Peterson says that Agari hopes to offers its authentication data to other spam filtering services run by McAfee and Symantec.
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Tracking lost phones and performing backups is hardly enough of a task to sustain giant antivirus operations like McAfee and Symantec.
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Defcon said it notified the two largest anti-virus software providers, McAfee and Symantec, about "Race to Zero, " but the companies declined to participate.
"I think it's just coincidental, " says Paul Ferguson, a researcher at Trend Micro, the world's third-largest Internet security company behind McAfee and Symantec.
But as the computing world shifts from PCs to mobile devices, Lookout has been able to trounce multibillion-dollar security giants like McAfee and Symantec without scaring people.
The news that the software giant will now allow companies such as McAfee and Symantec access to the kernel of the 64-bit version of Vista has been met with cautious approval.
And for San Francisco-based mobile security firm Lookout, it may also be the year when the idea of going up against PC-focused security giants like McAfee and Symantec no longer seemed quite so insane.
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McAfee competes with Symantec and TrendMicro in the enterprise as well as consumer antivirus market.
McAfee mainly competes with Symantec, Trend Micro, LANDesk Software and Microsoft in this segment and offers products like Endpoint Protection, Data Protection and Mobile Phone Security.
Symantec is going to face stiffer competition from McAfee, which was recently acquired by the semiconductor giant Intel.
Symantec is the leader in the security software market and competes with McAfee (acquired by Intel), Computer Associates, AVG, TrendMicro and Kaspersky Labs.
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Defcon said it notified the two largest anti-virus software providers, McAfee (nyse: MFE - news - people ) and Symantec, about "Race to Zero, " but the companies declined to participate.
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