AVG Secures Access to Social Networks Via Updated Browser
Toolbar
Facebook, Skype Presence and Status Update Functions
Delivered
Through AVG Notifier App
AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVG
Technologies, developers of the world?s most popular free anti-virus
software, today announced that it has updated its browser toolbar
to
include secure access to Facebook, Skype and weather updates. The
toolbar functions as a secure portal through which alerts, pokes,
friend
requests, event invitations and status updates can be made. A
proprietary Facebook Notifier feature can be configured to show
only
alerts that users want to receive.
?Our virus researchers have been warning consumers for
the past year of
hacks and scams that can be perpetrated via the social networks,
so we
are looking for ways to better align into these networks and begin
to
help make these interactions more secure?
?Our virus researchers have been warning consumers for the past
year of
hacks and scams that can be perpetrated via the social networks,
so we
are looking for ways to better align into these networks and begin
to
help make these interactions more secure,? said J.R. Smith, CEO of
AVG
Technologies. ?By adding this functionality into our toolbar, we
are
starting on a path to help keep our customers protected when they
work,
play, listen, view or connect online. AVG is protecting people,
not PCs,
and this addition to the tool bar gives them a convenient and
secure
channel through which to update Facebook status, launch Skype and
get
weather alerts.?
The AVG toolbar is available now and included for free as an
optional
installation in all of AVG?s security software products. Current
AVG
customers will receive the new toolbar functions as part of their
next
scheduled update; users with the AVG Security Toolbar already
installed
will be prompted to update. New customers can get the toolbar by
downloading any of AVG?s home security or business security
software
products here: http://www.avg.com/us-en/homepage
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AVG is a global security software maker protecting more than 110
million
consumers and small businesses in 170 countries from the
ever-growing
incidence of web threats, viruses, spam, cyber-scams and hackers
on the
Internet. AVG has nearly two decades of experience in combating
cyber
crime and one of the most advanced laboratories for detecting,
pre-empting and combating Web-borne threats from around the world.
Its
free, downloadable software allows novice users to have basic
anti-virus
protection and then easily upgrade to greater levels of safety and
defense when they are ready. AVG has nearly 6,000 resellers,
partners
and distributors globally including Amazon.com, CNET, Cisco,
Ingram
Micro, Play.com, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo!
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