Grisoft is a privately-held Czech company formed in 1991 by Jan Gritzbach that specializes in security software, with corporate offices in Europe and the United States. In early September 2005, a large stake in the company was bought by Intel.

Grisoft acquired Ewido Networks in April 2006 and recently upgraded their main product of AVG Anti-Virus from version 7.1 to 7.5. On November 6, 2006, Microsoft announced that AVG Security products would be available directly from the Windows Security Center in Windows Vista. Since June 7, 2006, the AVG software has also been used as an optional component of GFI Mail Security, produced by GFI Software.

Business

The Intel Corporation announced on September 7, 2005 that it has invested $16 million into Grisoft.

On December 5, 2007, Grisoft announced the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs, developer of the LinkScanner safe surfing technology.

As of January 21st, 2008 Grisoft, s.r.o.'s corporate name has changed to AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. This is a name change only: all links, references, legal, contractual and privacy obligations of Grisoft, s.r.o. will remain unchanged

Products

AVG Anti-Virus Professional

AVG Anti-Spyware

AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall

AVG Anti-Malware (AVG Anti-Virus and AVG Anti-Spyware)

AVG Internet Security (AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Firewall and Anti-Spam)

AVG Internet Security Home Edition

AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition for Linux/FreeBSD

AVG Anti-Virus Network (Networkable AVG Anti-Virus and Firewall with AVGADMIN)

AVG Anti-Malware Network (Networkable AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Firewall and with AVGADMIN)

AVG Internet Security Network (Networkable AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Firewall and Anti-Spam with AVGADMIN)

AVG Internet Security SBS Edition

AVG Anti-Malware SBS Edition

AVG File Server Edition for Linux/FreeBSD

AVG Email Server Edition for Linux/FreeBSD

AVG Rescue CD (Toolset for rescue & repair of infected machines.)

AVG Anti-Virus Free (Free anti-virus software with fewer features than the paid version)

AVG Anti-Rootkit Free Edition (Free rootkit protection for private and non-commercial use)

AVG Anti-Spyware Free (Free anti-spyware software with fewer features than the paid version)

Awards

ICSA Labs Anti-Virus certification

VB 100% award

Checkmark Level 1, Level 2 and Trojan certifications

TÜV Monitored Virus Protection

Red Herring 100 Europe award

Internet Commerce Excellence 2005

Gold Award - Web-User, the UK's biggest selling Internet magazine awarded AVG Anti-Virus in October 2006 antivirus group

Recommended award - AVG Free for Linux achieves "Recommended" award February 2006

Best antivirus program - PCW Awards for Excellence 2005

Best antivirus program - SC Magazine Best of 2005

Best Security Software 2007- Techworld Awards