Bullguard is Dead, Long Live Norton!

My Bullguard AV Premium installation switched today to Norton 360 For Gamers while online. It was flawless, it just happened! No hiccups, no restart! My Bullguard subscription parameters are now with Norton.
Kudos to the Norton/Bullguard teams.

 

Happy to hear it went smooth for you. Norton though, ugh.

 

LifeLock is an antivirus kraken, it baught Avast (which includes AVG), Bullguard, and Avira. Norton is a dead name, "Peter Norton"s products were vital, Symantec bought it and dropped it dead. with the desaster of SSL certs the name "Symantec" was burned and disappeared because it has bad associations. so "Symantec" still exists as "Norton LifeLock" and is still buying its competitors. and they implemented a crypto mining feature, is opt-in, but not able to be removed. but at least blocking other coiners and mining for itself (LifeLock gets a provision*), absolute unacceptable. LifeLock products should be free this way. but at least such products snce win10/11 are pain and do not have any additional security. au contraire - their kernel driver has root rights and if ... - and it is exploitable or to be bypassed - you pay for nothing because it do not offer backup nor offers it compensation.

* in german
https://t3n.de/news/norton-crypto-kunden-pcs-mining-provision-1442041/

 

Norton Crypto has been removed last month: https://community.norton.com/en/blo...ttention-important-norton-crypto-announcement

 

When you consider Avast/AVG's former actions, and what Lifelock has been doing, does ANYONE trust them with their privacy these days? It wouldn't surprise me at all that Avast/AVG was purchased for their data and datamining abilities, more than their customer base.

 

There's already a thread about this:

BullGuard and Norton

Avast in merger talks with NortonLifeLock

 

I just booted from my BullGuard partition, but even after it running an update I did not get Norton. I logged into my Norton account and was given the option to login to my BullGuard account where I had the option to download Norton. I download and installed Norton, which activated itself, but left BullGuard installed, so I manually uninstalled it.

 

I have fond memories for Norton Internet Security. It was one of the best security suits at the time. It's a shame it has fallen from its pedestal.

 

Yes, because this dying forum is way too packed with those 10 posts per day to make a new thread. Servers might crash.

 

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Did they buy Avira? Sounds like an antitrust suit is approaching, perhaps Bill Gates can offer some tips.

Peter's claim to fame way back came up with 'undelete'

I beta-tested his early backup program!

 

Norton has bought much more than Avira; it now owns Avira, Avast, AVG, BullGuard and Norman.

 

Norton Navigator was a pretty big deal too. I'm almost offended they still use his name.

 

I did not know Norton had purchased Avira. It will be interesting to see how many free AVs remain in the future.

 

sorry, but that seems wrong from your link:

disabling is not removal from my understanding. In case something will change, they will make it again avaliable for activation. i have no doubt they will find a solution.

 

I suspect it will probably just be Norton, ESET, and Kaspersky. Unless they buy ESET too.

 

Oh...God forbid...please!!!

 

There are a lot more: Bitdefender, McAfee, Panda, Sophos, Trend Micro, Malwarebytes, Webroot, etc.

 

I could honestly see Norton buying as many of those as they could get. Especially McAfee. It's already traded hands a couple of times.

 

Way back, when I used Windows, Bullguard was the first AV I used on my first laptop. IIRC it was bundled a lot in those days.

 

Amen to that! ✌️

 

Thoma Bravo still has a minority share of McAfee, it seems. Don't know if that would be an obstacle to Norton's acquiring it, though (if that was a consideration).

It seems Norton's plate is full, unless it has another few billion to throw at somebody--in these inflationary times. But these things are unpredictable at best, right?

 

I thought Intel owned McAfee, or am I thinking of a different company? They bought something like 10-12 years back.

 

There's also Dr. Web, but who knows if Norton is interested. I still use Dr. Web, Security Space 12, and it is very good.