Long-time partner assigns exclusive rights for its technology to Agnitum
Agnitum, the PC security expert and manufacturer of the Outpost range of security products, today announces the acquisition of antivirus technology and infrastructure from its long-term partner VirusBuster. From now on, Outpost security solutions will be supported by its own virus lab operating from the corporate headquarters in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Originally founded as a firewall company, Agnitum has been licensing VirusBuster’s antivirus technology and including it in Outpost software since 2006. Over the past six years, Agnitum has developed a number of modules that have enhanced the functionality of the VirusBuster Software Development Kit — behavior based detection,on-access , on-demand , speed-up of repeated scans, email and web filtering, and more. These enhancements have significantly contributed to Agnitum’s run of 12 successive Virus Bulletin (VB100) awards.
VirusBuster will cease the maintenance and development of the antivirus technology, effective October 1, 2012. Agnitum is offering consumers with acurrently-valid license for VirusBuster antivirus software a transition to the equivalent Outpost solution at no cost for the remainder of the current VirusBuster license term. VirusBuster consumers must apply for the transition license before October 1. VirusBuster users in Hungary should contact the local Agnitum distributor, Nollex Nemzetközi Kft, at vb-atteres@agnitum.hu ; those outside Hungary should contact Agnitum’s Customer Service at http://www.agnitum.com/support/contact.php.
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Agnitum, the PC security expert and manufacturer of the Outpost range of security products, today announces the acquisition of antivirus technology and infrastructure from its long-term partner VirusBuster. From now on, Outpost security solutions will be supported by its own virus lab operating from the corporate headquarters in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Originally founded as a firewall company, Agnitum has been licensing VirusBuster’s antivirus technology and including it in Outpost software since 2006. Over the past six years, Agnitum has developed a number of modules that have enhanced the functionality of the VirusBuster Software Development Kit — behavior based detection,
VirusBuster will cease the maintenance and development of the antivirus technology, effective October 1, 2012. Agnitum is offering consumers with a
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10 comments:
ok,so does this mean that Agnitum has accquired Virusbuster as a company ?
Congratulations on the acquisition!
~David
This means that we will have an outpost rescue CD ?
> ok,so does this mean that Agnitum has accquired Virusbuster as a company ?
No, Agnitum acquires antivirus technology only.
> Congratulations on the acquisition!
Thank you, David!
> This means that we will have an outpost rescue CD ?
Currently we do not develop the requested product.
Is this VirusBuster's technology somehow related to .VBT-files?
I'm encountering unexpected BSoDs with Windows XP running Outpost Security Suite 7.1 (with all recent updates) under the heavy load of CPU: all BSoDs mention a file with the .VBT extenstion and a random name.
Great news, VirusBuster's engine isn't really on par with other major anti-virus engines out there, I hope this acquisition would change things for the better; you can start by completely removing all the definitions in their "riskware", "hacktool", etc categories because they're all false-positives.
We advise you to update Outpost version to the latest 7.5.3.3942.
Agnitum is known as one of the leading antivirus and firewall and anti-behavior tool.
when will be a new version out ?
Dear Nima, we expect a release in this quarter.
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