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January 3, 2006
Symantec Buys IMLogic

Computer security giant Symantec announced today that it has acquired the holdings within the instant messaging company IMLogic.

Instant messaging is become extremely popular with the release of many of the current IM software offering VoIP capabilities, however IM software is extremely vulnerable to attacks and hackers. As evident by Microsoft’s latest virus threat.

The acquisition of IMLogic by Symantec will help “many companies secure and store instant-messaging traffic by employees”. IMLogic also released statistics today that security threats to IM software saw an increase of 826% between now and last year. Many of the threats were against Microsoft (48%) and AOL (41%).


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