Since its founding, it has expanded rapidly and now offers an array of different protection levels to users worldwide.ĪVG was bought by Avast for $1.3bn in 2016 but remains a separate brand from Avast software, although their protection rates and technology are very similar. This means Norton could soon implement the best bits from all three of these companies, Avast had already finished syncing the Avast and AVG cloud and behavioral monitoring technology.ĪVG Technologies was founded in 1990 in post-communist Czechoslovakia. In December 2020, it announced the acquisition of Avira antivirus, and in August 2021, it announced that it would be acquiring Avast, which itself acquired AVG a few years prior.
Formerly Symantec, it acquired LifeLock identity protection in 2017, which led to its name change of NortonLifeLock. Norton has been a major player in the antivirus world since 1991.
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