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Article: Grisoft Gobbles Exploit Prevention Labs; Grisoft hopes its buyout of Exploit Prevention Labs will allow it to take on the security market's Big Three.
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- eWeek
- Article date:
- December 5, 2007
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Grisoft has acquired Exploit Prevention Labs in a bid to extend its protection against Web-based threats.
Grisoft is behind the AVG suite of security products. The merger, made for an undisclosed sum, gives the company Exploit Prevention Labs' experience in safe surfing technology. Officials at both companies said they hope the acquisition will give them the boost they will need to continue to grow in the face of competition from the "Big Three" security vendors--Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee.
Atlanta-based Exploit Prevention Labs, or XPL, is the maker of LinkScanner, which provides real-time, automatic protection against malicious Web sites, drive-by downloads and other exploits ...