AVG News

AVG Technologies Partners with Maplin to Boost High Street Presence

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:32:25 +0000

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – January 7, 2009 AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, has announced a partnership with electronics retailer Maplin Electronics. Maplin operates a network of 158 retail stores, a mail-order service and a leading e-commerce platform, offering coverage throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland. AVG's Internet security and anti-virus software products will be available to consumers via all three Maplin channels with immediate effect.

AVG 8.0 Protects Against Dangerous Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:16:20 +0000

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, December 16, 2008– Security software from AVG effectively blocks attempts by cyber criminals seeking to capitalize on the recently discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. The vulnerability enables unauthorized third parties to take control of users' PCs by tricking them into visiting poisoned web pages.

AVG Technologies signs reseller agreement with Probrand

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:48:08 +0000

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 12 December 2008 - AVG Technologies, one of the world's largest providers of internet security software, has selected Probrand to assist in marketing and supporting its products for public sector customers in the UK.

E-Xmas cards are a front for online crime, warns internet security firm AVG Technologies

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:44:09 +0000

Amsterdam, December 8th,2008 - Employees working for growing businesses are opening e-Xmas cards without being aware those cards might be ‘phishing' for personal information or bearing computer viruses, a new questionnaire-based survey of 200 staff working at small businesses has found.

AVG Free 8.0 for the first time in Polish!

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:54:23 +0000

Amsterdam – December 9th, 2008 - AVG Technologies, a global Internet security software provider with over 85 million users in 167 countries, today announces the availability of the first Polish language version of its popular and widely-used AVG Free 8.0 security software. From now on, the Polish version of AVG 8.0 free may be downloaded from: http://free.avg.com/pl.

AVG Service Pack 2 Beta

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Amsterdam - December 8,2008 – AVG 8.0 Service Pack2 has a lot of enhancements such as improved API support, overall optimization with lower resources usage and faster perfomance, improved stability of plugins, option of cleaning log files, support to revert AVI databases to previous version. It also provides the possibility or importing data from WAB file (Windows Address Book) to white list, option of putting sent mails recipients to white list automatically and support for Mozilla Firefox 3 cookies scanning and healing.

AVG named “Spicies Award” winner for Top Anti-Virus Software for Small Business

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:57:56 +0000

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, December 4th, 2008 - AVG Technologies today announced that its anti-virus software was voted a winner in the 2008 Spicies™ Awards – a competition in which 500,000 IT small business professionals vote on their favorite technology products and services. Award winners were selected based on the most popular products within the Spiceworks community – one of the largest groups of small business technology professionals in the world. Spiceworks users voted on the best-of-the-best, and winners were announced at the inaugural SpiceWorld 2008 conference.

AVG extends availability of Free Security Software to Spanish-language computer users

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:54:07 +0000

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, December 2nd, 2008 – AVG, a global anti-virus and Internet security software provider with over 85 million users in 167 countries, today announced the availability of the first Spanish-language version of its popular AVG Free 8.0 security software.

AVG sees uphill battle for Microsoft in its launch of free anti-virus software

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:00:00 +0000

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, November 21, 2008– AVG, a global anti-virus and Internet security software provider with over 85 million users in 167 countries, today responded to Microsoft's announcement of a free anti-virus software product slated to appear in mid-2009.

Protect your Family and Friends from Seasonal Online Threats

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:56:43 +0000

Amsterdam, Netherlands. 20 November 2008 - People are turning to e-cards as a low cost and eco-friendly way to deliver the season's greetings to friends and loved ones.