AVG Technologies has announced the availability of its next generation consumer product releases for PC and mobile. AVG’s products and suites will now be auto-updated on a continual basis, so users will always have the latest features and capabilities and will no longer need to worry about keeping their products up to date. This is AVG’s first step towards Security as a Service.
As well as including AVG’s latest protection and performance products for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac OSX devices, both suites feature AVG’s flagship AVG Zen platform, which makes it easy for users to monitor and manage protection and performance across an unlimited number of their own devices, and those of family members, from a single dashboard on any PC or Android device.
AVG has coordinated these releases with two, industry initiatives: European Cyber Security Month andNational Cyber Security Awareness Month, to underscore its leadership in online security and its strong commitment to protecting devices, data and people, at home and at work.
New features of the updated AVG Protection and AVG Performance suites include:
AVG Protection
Available in FREE or PRO versions, AVG Protection includes AVG’s leading AVG AntiVirus software for Windows, Android or Mac, and features the following updates:
AVG AntiVirus for Windows
- Real-Time Cloud Detection: helps instantly spot new malware outbreaks using up-to-the-minute cloud-based crowd intelligence.
- AI Detection: uses advanced artificial intelligence and crowd-sourced data to proactively identify new threats in real-time, before our AVG VirusLab team has catalogued the threats.
- Improved Online Shield: in the PRO version includescloud-based detection to identify dangerous downloads faster than ever.
AVG AntiVirus for Android
- Better malware protection: Better protect your phone or tablet, thanks to new smart cloud scanning, shortened scan times, and improved detection.
- Improved Anti-Theft: Improved algorithms make remote location faster on FREE and PRO.
- More informative: To make scan results easier to understand, we’ve integrated with AVG VirusLab to provide more information about the threats we find.
- Improved Battery Save mode: We’ve made it easier to improve your battery life by allowing you to turn on Battery Save mode from directly within the low-battery notifications in your phone’s notification panel.
AVG AntiVirus for Mac
- New Quarantine: in AVG AntiVirus for Mac now lets users isolate infected files from the rest of their Mac devices, so they can decide how to handle them at a later time.
AVG Performance
Comprising AVG’s three tuneup products – AVG PC TuneUp, AVG Cleaner for Android and AVG Cleaner for Mac – the upgraded AVG Performance suite includes the following:
AVG PC Tune Up
- New Tuning Dashboard: giving users faster access to all tuning features and better visibility of potential performance issues.
- Enhanced PC cleaning: now cleans up more games from Steam, the Download folder and additional applications such as VMware.
- Enhanced Browser Cleaner: removes 60 types of browser traces from the latest browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox.
AVG Cleaner for Android
- New App Manager: gives users an immediate overview of the most draining apps from a single screen and helps to get rid of them once and for all.
AVG Cleaner for Mac
- New iPhoto Cache cleaning: to stop iPhoto ‘cache’ folders taking up space and preventing photo deletion over time.
AVG Protection and AVG Performance are available to download now via the AVG website. PRO versions of both suites, which include features such as AVG Internet Security, are also available for 30-day trials, or to purchase as annual subscriptions for $59.99 (Protection) or $39.99 (Performance).
Avast Snags AVG In $1.3 Billion Deal
Posted in Commentary with tags Avast, AVG on July 7, 2016 by itnerdIn a blockbuster deal, Netherlands based anti-virus software maker AVG has been acquired by Avast in a huge deal that is worth $25 a share or $1.3 Billion US in total. Here’s why Avast did the deal:
Avast said that it’s acquiring AVG to “gain scale, technological depth, and geographical breadth” and so it can “take advantage of emerging growth opportunities in internet security, as well as organizational efficiencies.”
The combined company will have access to “400 million endpoints” — that is, devices that have some form of Avast or AVG application installed. Almost half of those are mobile, which is key in a world that is increasingly shifting away from the desktop. Access to more devices will serve the joint company a bigger pool of data on malware, meaning it should be better positioned to offer improved security products.
“We are in a rapidly changing industry, and this acquisition gives us the breadth and technological depth to be the security provider of choice for our current and future customers,” said Vincent Steckler, CEO of Avast. “Combining the strengths of two great tech companies, both founded in the Czech Republic and with a common culture and mission, will put us in a great position to take advantage of the new opportunities ahead, such as security for the enormous growth in IoT.”
This deal basically takes two of the biggest players and takes them down to one. But you could see it coming as Microsoft for example is stepping up its game when it comes to endpoint security and anti-virus. Plus sales in this space are at best, flat. Thus consolidation was likely the way to go for both parties. Of course the shareholders of AVG have to approve this deal, but that shouldn’t be a problem given that the boards of both companies have given their approval.
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