AVG News

AVG Technologies Names Craig Kensek Global Product Reviews Director

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:20:58 +0000

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (December 17, 2008)– AVG, a global anti-virus and Internet security software provider with over 80 million users in 167 countries, announced today that it has appointed Craig Kensek to the position of Global Product Reviews Director.

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 to “Slam the Online Holiday Scam” with Detection of Bogus E-Greeting Messages

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:55:45 +0000

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (December 9, 2008) - AVG, a global anti-virus and Internet security software provider with over 85 million users in 167 countries, today announced the launch of a public-education campaign designed to alert consumers to the dangers of sending or receiving e-greeting cards loaded with devastating computer viruses and malware. The campaign also provides free AVG software to consumers, arming them with complete online protection throughout the holiday season.

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.

AVG Free 8.0 now available in Brazilian Portuguese

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:14:32 +0000

Rio de Janeiro - November, 2008– AVG Technologies, the first software developer to provide free real-time protection against the stealthiest threats to today's Internet users, today announces the availability of the first Brazilian Portuguese language version of its popular AVG Free 8.0 security software, already used by more than 6 million persons in Brazil in English.

AVG Technologies appoints first Belgian distributor

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:40:39 +0000

Amsterdam, October 29, 2008 - AVG Technologies, a leading provider of internet security software, announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with 2BY2, a leading broad-based software distributor. 2BY2 is tasked with increasing the availability and market penetration of AVG's full range of consumer and business security solutions.