Intel Enters Anti-Virus Market 191
Jack writes "ITO holds a story on latest Intel investment: "Intel is branching into anti-virus security with a $16 million investment in Czech anti-virus software vendor Grisoft. Grisoft's AVG anti-virus is used on more than 25 million computers worldwide, according to the company."
Re:More Free Software Disappearing? (Score:5, Informative)
AVG (Score:5, Informative)
I've used the free version of AVG for a few years now and it has been very good to me. I just hope that with this infuse of money Grisoft doesn't become too "corporate."
Re:Antivirus CPU (Score:3, Informative)
Back in the day (maybe now too) some BIOS's watched the boot sector of the computer for viruses that tried to install themselves there.
Great Product (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Worked for Microsoft... Let's see how Intel han (Score:5, Informative)
From the press release on Grisoft's website:
Grisoft announces investment by Intel Capital and Enterprise Investors
Prague, Czech Republic - September 6th, 2005 - Grisoft, one of the leading providers of anti-virus security software, announced today that Enterprise Investors (EI), the largest private equity firm in Central and Eastern Europe, and Intel Capital, Intel Corporation's venture investment fund, have made a substantial investment in the company.
The $52 million investment in Grisoft by Enterprise Investors and Intel Capital will result in a new ownership structure of the company, with a majority stake being acquired from current owners Benson Oak Capital. As a result of this strategic transaction, the two new investors will own a 65% stake in Grisoft.
Re:Antivirus CPU (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/ [intel.com]
Tie the two ideas together, and you might see one of the ways Intel is hoping to use it's virtualization technology.
Re:Crap. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:More Free Software Disappearing? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Worked for Microsoft... Let's see how Intel han (Score:2, Informative)
Re:LanDesk (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Antivirus CPU (Score:5, Informative)
Sure. It's called "Trusted Computing". It's another name for "Disney Rights Management". I hope you enjoy getting what you're wishing for.
The Story Is Wrong. (Score:3, Informative)
"Enters" (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Crap. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:More Free Software Disappearing? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:More Free Software Disappearing? (Score:3, Informative)
Intel and Anti Virus (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Antivirus CPU (Score:2, Informative)
To this day, most motherboards still have this option, at least Award bioses do. It's not activated by default and is somewhat hidden in a sea of options.
It would be nice, however, if they would actually perform virus scans at given times, on given days, in the background. I don't think it would be too difficult or too much to ask for this to happen.
Re:Great Product (Score:4, Informative)
from http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 [grisoft.com]
Is AVG Free right for you?
AVG Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only. Use of AVG Free Edition within any organization or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. The AVG Free Edition is absolutely not for use with any type of OEM bundling with SW, HW component or any service. Your use of AVG Free Edition shall be in accordance with and is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the AVG Free Edition License Agreement which accompanies AVG Free Edition.
i'm pretty sure a small company computer doesn't constitute as a non-commercial, single home computer.
just my 2 cents. the software works great, and i recommend it to everyone who wants a good free av software, but their clause does state that any type of commercial use requires the purchase of a license.
Re:Crap. (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Main/view/Downloa
Re:I wonder.. (Score:2, Informative)
I hope Intel understands the value of AVG being free cause these morons would rather be plague carriers than pay for something other than a quick fix.
Get Clamwin (Score:4, Informative)
The biggest problem it faces may be that it's so plain and easy to use that people have trouble accepting that it's as good as all the colorful commercial offerings they see. I wonder if Intel's gonna keep AVG's viruses. [grisoft.com]
Use it as a second scanner if you already have another AV program-- Clamwin is not a resource hog.
Oh yeah -- it's frequently used as an email scanner in networks of all sizes... don't worry about it's virus database!
Re:Antivirus CPU (Score:2, Informative)
The real problem is that bioses perform raw I/O, they have no concept of filesystems: is that an EXT2 filesystem? perhaps it's an NTFS?
Actually, Intel REenters antivirusAntiVirus Market (Score:2, Informative)
Eventually they sold it around 1998 or 1999 to Symantec, where it became Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition (and now Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition).
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Re:Great Product (Score:4, Informative)
AMD / ASUS already has this; (Score:1, Informative)
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5137832.html [zdnet.com]
ASUS uses TREND CHIP.
http://www.trendmicro.com/en/about/news/pr/archiv
So I guess Intel is playing catch up? On the marketing, I mean.