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This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3

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There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

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