Tag: grisoft
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All in the name
Grisoft becomes AVG. Last month, Czech firm Grisoft , developer of widely used anti-malware product AVG , changed its corporate name to AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. Having operated under the Grisoft name for nearly 17 years the company will now go under the same name as its popular product. Similar moves have been made in…
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Grisoft acquires Exploit Prevention Labs
AVG to incorporate LinkScanner in further consolidation of security offerings. Grisoft , developer of the AVG security product whose free version is widely deployed on home-user desktops, has announced the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs , a small firm whose headline product LinkScanner focuses on detecting exploit attempts in web pages before they are visited.…
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Symantec, AVG suffer problems
Vulnerabilities and false positives strike major products. Symantec users have been warned of some serious issues with archive handling, across a wide range of software produced by the company, which could be used to caused denial of service or even breach a system. AVG , meanwhile, has also been hit by a less serious vulnerability,…