AVG Technologies

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AVG Technologies
Type Private
Founded Brno, Czech Republic (1991)
Founder(s) Jan Gritzbach
Tomas Hofer
Headquarters Brno, Czech Republic
Area served Worldwide
Key people J.R. Smith, CEO
Dale Fuller, Chairman
Karel Obluk, CTO
John Little, CFO
Roger Thompson, CRO
Industry Computer software
Products Antivirus software
Website www.avg.com

AVG Technologies (formerly named Grisoft) is a privately-held Czech company formed in 1991 by Jan Gritzbach and Tomas Hofer, with corporate offices in Europe and the United States. The company specializes in computer security software.

In 2001, Jan Gritzbach decided to sell Grisoft to Benson Oak Capital Acquisitions. Four years later, Benson Oak sold a 65% share in the company to Intel Capital and Enterprise Investors for $52 million.[1][2][3]

On April 19, 2006, Grisoft acquired the German company ewido Networks, an anti-spyware software manufacturer, and incorporated ewido's features into new versions of AVG software.[4][5]

On November 6, 2006, Microsoft announced that AVG Security products would be available directly from the Windows Security Center in Windows Vista.[6] Since June 7, 2006, the AVG software has also been used as an optional component of GFI MailSecurity, produced by GFI Software.[7]

On December 5, 2007, Grisoft announced the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs, developer of the LinkScanner safe surfing technology. [8]

In February 2008, Grisoft was officially renamed AVG Technologies. This change was made to increase the effectiveness of their marketing activities.[9]

In January 2009, AVG announced their plans to acquire Sana Security are finalized. Plans to integrate Sana's technologies in their free consumer product, AVG Anti-Virus, are still under consideration, according to JR Smith, AVG's chief executive. Sana Security's developed technologies are currently licensed to Symantec.[10][11][12]

On October 5, 2009, TA Associates announced that they bought a minority stake in AVG Technologies for more than $200 million.[13]

Contents

[edit] Products

Main article: AVG (software)

[edit] Home security

  • AVG Anti-Virus 9.0 (AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, LinkScanner)
  • AVG Anti-Virus & Firewall 9.0 (as above plus Firewall)
  • AVG Internet Security 9.0 (as above plus Anti-Spam and Identity Protection and System Tools)
  • AVG Identity Protection

[edit] Business security

  • AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 9.0 (Networkable AVG Anti-Virus and Firewall with AVGADMIN, built in Rescue CD)
  • AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 (Networkable AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Firewall and Anti-Spam with AVGADMIN, Identity Protection, built in Rescue CD, Server level Anti-Spam)
  • AVG File Server Edition 9.0
  • AVG E-mail Server Edition 9.0
  • AVG Server Edition 8.5 for Linux/FreeBSD

[edit] Others

  • AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0 (Free anti-virus, anti-spyware and LinkScanner software. Fewer features than the paid versions.)
  • AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5 for Linux/FreeBSD

[edit] Awards[14]

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  • ICSA Labs Anti-Virus certification
  • VB 100% award
  • Checkmark Level 1, Level 2 and Trojan certifications
  • TÜV Monitored Virus Protection
  • Red Herring 100 Europe award
  • Gold Award - Web-User, the UK's biggest selling Internet magazine awarded AVG Anti-Virus in October 2006 antivirus group
  • Recommended award - AVG Free for Linux achieves "Recommended" award February 2006
  • Best anti-virus program - PCW Awards for Excellence 2005
  • Best anti-virus program - SC Magazine Best of 2005
  • Best Security Software 2007- Techworld Awards
  • OESIS OK Certified for antispyware, antivirus and personal firewall - AVG 8[15][16]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ GRISOFT "Celebrates 15 Years of Internet Security Success", AVG Technologies bulletin, 15 December 2006
  2. ^ Intel buys part of Grisoft
  3. ^ Intel buys part of AVG Technologies
  4. ^ AVG Technologies announces release of ewido Anti-Spyware
  5. ^ Grisoft announces release of ewido Anti-Spyware
  6. ^ Microsoft incorporates AVG into the Vista Security Center
  7. ^ What's new in GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP 10?
  8. ^ AVG Acquires Exploit Prevention Labs, Developer of LinkScanner Safe Surfing Technology.
  9. ^ AVG Anti-Virus and Internet Security - Leading Internet security vendor, Grisoft, changes name to AVG Technologies
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ [2]
  12. ^ [3]
  13. ^ http://www.ta.com/news/news_detail.asp?id=185
  14. ^ AVG Antivirus and Security Software - Awards & Certifications
  15. ^ http://www.opswat.com/media/news/avg-technologies-achieves-oesisok-certification
  16. ^ http://www.oesisok.com/program-info/current-members.html

[edit] External links

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