McAffe is best know for it’s anti-virus product which also includes other online security threat protection such as identity theft, spyware and phishing scams.  So far, the company has concentrated on stopping user data loss via malicious means but the new tie-up with Mozy sees them entering a new market.

Mozy’s leading online backup software product looks at protecting data from other threats – namely, theft, accidental damage and hardware failure.  The Mozy system works silently in the background and uploads user data securely to a remote online server.  This keeps the backup away from the original and allows users to ‘fire-and-forget’ when setting up their backup solution.

No hardware is required and the software can be downloaded for free from the internet.  Mozy already offers this service to over a million users for a low monthly or annual fee and a free trial is available.

At present the service from McAfee is only available to US customers but the company promises that other countries will get the web backup offering over the next year.

Mozy claims to be the worlds most trusted online backup service and competes with Carbonite, Backblaze, SugarSync, iDrive and SpiderOak amongs others in the fast growing market.

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