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AVG buys Sana Security

Jan 13

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Popular Czech online protection company AVG Technologies now owns Sana Security, a Californian company which produces identity-theft prevention software.

In a statement, the Sana acquisition will, “complement the antivirus firm’s existing portfolio by ‘delivering continuous threat detection and automatic removal of malicious software proactively’,” it says in a ZDNet UK story, going on

Describing Sana’s products as ‘zero-day-type protection’, AVG chief executive JR Smith told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that ID-theft protection — added to AVG’s signature-based protection and trusted-site analysis — formed a “third layer that we feel will allow us to help people protect their identities and [their] whole online world.

Sana software, “only uses one percent of the user’s CPU power,” Smith stated, “suggesting that this would help in providing optimum system performance.

“Peter Baxter, Sana’s UK managing director, also told ZDNet UK in the same phone-call that Sana’s technology – which he said was different from rivals’ software by virtue of completely removing malicious code rather than just quarantining it – would remain compatible with antivirus packages other than those made by AVG,” says he post.

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AVG buys Sana Security