New AVG 9.0 Business family of products released

AVG Technologies has released its new AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 and AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 9.0, which are available for download from www.avgsa.co.za.

“The new products leverage the significant enhancements in speed and levels of protection that AVG has delivered in its latest generation of consumer products, making it safer and easier to manage,” said Johann Ollewagen, Channel Manager of OASIS Software Distributors and Authorised Distributor of AVG software products in South Africa.

“AVG's 9.0 business solutions provide businesses with more powerful and streamlined protection that deliver improved administration, more robust protection, and faster performance - all without getting in the way of business. This generation of products is taking AVG back to its core strength of low impact, high performance security.”

To minimise the impact of protection on productivity, AVG's small business solutions now offer scan times that are up to 50% faster than earlier versions, depending on system configuration.

The combined anti-virus/anti-spyware scanner employs new intelligent technology, which marks files as safe or potentially unsafe during its initial scan, and ignores them in future scans unless the file structure changes.

In addition, to counteract the increasing threats in today's online world, AVG's solutions combine both reactive and proactive technologies to deliver optimised protection in real-time. Building on a solid foundation of signature-based protection to deal with known threats, AVG 9.0 adds cutting-edge behavioural, in the cloud, and white listing technologies to manage the threats posed by the tens of thousands of new threats that appear daily.

Revolutionary in the AVG Internet security offerings is the integration between the Resident Shield, firewall, and data protection modules.

This enables modules to share malware information, increasing AVG's ability to detect and remove most malicious types of malware, rootkits, and other threats for which signatures have not yet been issued. The redesigned firewall application assists in keeping business information safe from known and unknown threats and is significantly quieter and less intrusive; the new trusted database of applications and application certificates enables AVG to determine, without user intervention, the relative safety of any active process and block any deemed unsafe.

Additionally, because the new firewall co-operates behind the scenes with AVG's unique behavioural detection technology, it delivers significantly enhanced accuracy of threat detection.

AVG 9.0 also includes key enhancements to minimise the management resources required. The new offerings incorporate cloning technology into the deployment process, simplifying and shortening installation time, and new system tools enable administrators to customise the way AVG works to protect the network. The new update manager makes sure the business is always protected against the latest threats - automatically, and the new Linux-based rescue CD restores the network in the event an existing infection renders systems unbootable.

Finally, AVG has made it significantly easier to detect and remove any third-party security product that could cause conflicts and interfere with the user's level of protection.

Specific to AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 is the addition of data protection functionality, gained through AVG's acquisition of Sana Security earlier this year.

The behavioural technology learns the DNA of a business' network so it can recognise anomalies and block malicious processes, which dramatically improves protection against keyloggers and other crimeware. The new functionality in identity protection (IDP) will catch malicious software trying to hijack a system before it is able to cause any damage.

To improve ease of use and administrator experience, IDP is manageable from the administrator's console or can be completely silent.

In addition, the new client e-mail scanner in AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 9.0 cleans the e-mail system of harmful message attachments and dangerous links, and the new enhanced anti-spam filter prevents phishers, scammers, and spammers from clogging workstations and mail servers.

Web shielding technology also minimises the risk of virus and other rogue software infections when downloading and exchanging files.

Availability and pricing:

AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 and AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 9.0 are available from your local reseller and http://www.avgsa.co.za.

AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 9.0 for 5 computers for sells at R1 248 excl VAT for one year, or R1 872 excl VAT for two years.

AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 for 5 computers for sells at R2 028 excl VAT for one year, or R3 042 excl VAT for two years.

For more information on the complete range of AVG security products, including our File Server and E-mail Server editions, please visit http://www.avgsa.co.za.