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July 20, 2004
The anti-spam industry is consolidating
USA Today reports that the anti-spam industry is consolidating.
Symantec appears to be one of the big ones grabbing everything up with it acquiring Brightmail and TurnTide. Trend Micro partnered with Postini, and IBM with Message Labs.
Now that these big names are throwing money into it, the smaller guys are slowly either also getting absorbed, or killed off.
This isn't anything new, but just what happens in the markets as new concepts come out.
Now those of you with a conspiracy theorist bent can start worrying that these people make their money off of reducing the amount of spam out there - and in order to do that, they need spam to still be sent.
Just in the way that the anti-virus companies haven't stopped viruses. ;)
Posted by Eric at July 20, 2004 08:01 AM
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An excellent point.
Personally, I have never used a Symantec product that I didn't hate and didn't cause me more problems than what it was intended to resolve (*cough*WinFax*cough*).
I don't know about McAfee, it has been years since I have used any of their products AFAIK and I wasn't all that impressed at the time.
We use Trend Micro here at work on Exchange to block viruses and it has been very impressive and extremely easy to use. I am very pleased with it.
Unfortunately we still use Symantec on the client machines.
As for anti-spam, in house we use the SpamAssassin solution for Exchange that I have written about before on here and it works very well for us.
I agree with what you say about the "affiliates" - there are many programs through which one can be a legitimate affiliate with various companies, but I would guess that there are also ways that are more removed from the company that allows them to reap the rewards of the sales, but they can wave their hands at the spam and say it it someone else's fault/problem.
Posted by: Eric at July 20, 2004 03:53 PM
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As many spams as I've seen selling McAfee and Symantec antivirus software, I find it hard to believe that they aren't willing to support spammers. If all of that software was pirated, they would be going after them full bore. But they don't - and I think it's because they have "affiliates" that sell the software for them.
Regardless, neither of them will get any business from me on antivirus or antispam software.
Posted by: Stephen at July 20, 2004 03:39 PM