Security firms McAfee and Symantec announced this week details of their coming Internet services which aim to keep consumers' computers secure and safe online, as Microsoft rolled out the final version of its own service.
McAfee announced on Tuesday the first details of its project, codenamed 'Falcon.' The service has been under stealthy development for more than 12 months and will be released later this summer, the company said in a statement.
In January, rival Symantec, the parent company of SecurityFocus, also announced a consumer-focused security service--codenamed 'Project Genesis'--aimed at competing with Microsoft's OneCare. On Wednesday, the company announced it had renamed the service Norton 360, expected to start its beta testing soon, and would roll out the service to consumers by the end of its fiscal year in March 2007.
Both companies underscored the confusion caused by PC security as their reason for launching their services.
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