Relationship between these Antivirus terms: Symantec, Norton, VMWare, Broadcom, Carbon Black

Posted on October 8, 2024 by timlyg

Thanks to Google's AI search engine and wikipedia. Now I'm not confused and can steer clear of the annoying Norton's path.

Carbon Black

  • 2002 founded by Bit9
  • 2019 VMWare acquired CB
  • 2023 Broadcom acquired VMWare

Norton Antivirus

  • 1998 When Symantec Antivirus for Mac (SAM) was renamed Norton Antivirus (NAV) which was eponym of Peter Norton Computing which was acquired by Symantec in 1990.
  • 2019 Broadcom acquired Enterprise Security Software Division of Symantec, and Symantec was itself renamed NortonLifeLock.
  • 2022 NortonLifeLock merged with Avast and renamed Gen Digital Inc.
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