McAfee is being kept busy through the global downturn with individuals and companies continuing to see sense and value in protecting their computer systems, and is developing a number of key products for Apple.

McAfee, which is the world’s number two security software company in the world, has also just told investors that business, whilst hard during the start of the year, has actually improved over the last two months.

The McAfee CEO was in an upbeat mood as he revealed that the company had experienced a virtual freeze in January and February 2009, but added that March was better, with April better still and that currently, things had virtually returned to normal spending levels.

And McAfee is also developing products for the design-led computer group Apple. A comprehensive security suite was currently in development for both Mac computers and the iPhone family.

In particular, McAfee believes that as more and more applications become available for the iPhone, from thousands of software developers, so the threat to security will increase dramatically. Avoiding identity theft and data loss will become big worries for the iPhone user. It has been reported that since its launch in July, 2008, over one billion programmes have been downloaded from the Apple App Store.

Although confirming that such an Apple security suite was in development, McAfee didn’t let on when it would be released.

Guest Article by Neil Camp