The company returned to its original name in July 2004.

Company president Gene Hodges served as interim CEO before George Samenuk was appointed CEO in 2001. Īt the end of 2000, CEO Bill Larson, President Peter Watkins, and CFO Prabhat Goyal all resigned after the company sustained losses. In 2000, McAfee/Network Associates was the leading authority in educating and protecting people against the Love Bug or ILOVEYOU virus, one of the most destructive computer viruses in history. McAfee, as a result of brief ownership of TIS Labs/NAI Labs/Network Associates Laboratories/McAfee Research, was highly influential in the world of open-source software, as that organization produced portions of the Linux, FreeBSD, and Darwin operating systems, and developed portions of the BIND name server software and SNMP version 3. McAfee acquired Trusted Information Systems under the banner of Network Associates in 1998. It is fair to say that McAfee remains best known for its anti-virus and anti-spam products.Īmong other companies bought and sold by McAfee is Trusted Information Systems, which developed the Firewall Toolkit, the free software foundation for the commercial Gauntlet Firewall, which was later sold to Secure Computing Corporation. While those product lines had their own individual successes including PowerBroker (written by Dean Huxley and Dan Freedman and now sold by BeyondTrust), the growth of antivirus ware always outpaced the growth of the other security product lines. The FSA team also oversaw the creation of a number of other technologies that were leading edge at the time, including firewall, file encryption, and public key infrastructure product lines. In 1996, McAfee acquired Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based FSA Corporation, which helped the company diversify its security offerings away from just client-based antivirus software by bringing on board its own network and desktop encryption technologies. Network Associates was formed in 1997 as a merger of McAfee Associates, Network General, PGP Corporation and Helix Software.

Bill Larson was appointed CEO in his place. In 1993, McAfee stepped down as head of the company, taking the position of chief technology officer before his eventual resignation. McAfee was incorporated in the state of Delaware in 1992.

The company was founded in 1987 as McAfee Associates, named for its founder John McAfee, who resigned from the company in 1994. Former McAfee logo with the Intel byline 1987–1999

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