McAfee buying web security company

**Glaswegian** · 10-30-2007, 01:42 PM

McAfee will acquire ScanAlert, a Web application security vendor, for US$51 million, the companies announced Tuesday.

ScanAlert, which was founded in 2001, runs a paid service that scans Web sites daily looking for security vulnerabilities and checks if e-commerce applications have up-to-date patches.

McAfee said the business will be integrated into its Web Security Group, which develops McAfee's SiteAdvisor service. SiteAdvisor scans Web sites and scores them according to their risk, taking into account for example whether malicious software is hosted on the site. Consumers can download the SiteAdvisor toolbar that displays that ranking in a group of search results.

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SpySentinel · 10-30-2007, 03:48 PM

Interesting move by McAfee. We should see a better SiteAdvisor soon.

**Glaswegian** · 10-30-2007, 04:04 PM

Which would be useful, since the current one still makes mistakes.

SpySentinel · 11-01-2007, 03:02 PM

I just wish it was Symantec or Kaspersky that made the buy. Oh well, waiting for the new and improved SiteAdvisor.

10-30-2007, 01:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
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10-30-2007, 03:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
SpySentinel Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: The United States Posts: 378 OS: Windows XP SP2	Re: McAfee buying web security company Interesting move by McAfee. We should see a better SiteAdvisor soon. __________________ Proud graduate of GeekU - Learn how to remove malware at GeekstoGo.com UNITE ASAP

10-30-2007, 04:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
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11-01-2007, 03:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
SpySentinel Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: The United States Posts: 378 OS: Windows XP SP2	Re: McAfee buying web security company I just wish it was Symantec or Kaspersky that made the buy. Oh well, waiting for the new and improved SiteAdvisor. __________________ Proud graduate of GeekU - Learn how to remove malware at GeekstoGo.com UNITE ASAP