VeriSign and AVG Integrate VeriSign Trust™ Seal within AVG LinkScanner® Search Results
Integrated Offering Helps Consumers Easily Identify Trustworthy Sites When Searching the Web
Melbourne, 3 March 2010 - AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, the Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific distributor of the award-winning AVG Anti-Virus and Internet Security software, announced today that VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, and AVG Technologies, developers of the world's most popular free anti-virus software, have an agreement to display the new VeriSign Trust™ Seal within AVG LinkScanner® search results pages. For all web sites that are customers of the VeriSign Trust Seal, this feature is now available in the latest version of the AVG LinkScanner software, and over time, will enable tens of millions of consumers to more easily identify safe sites.
Last week, VeriSign announced the VeriSign Trust Seal, which includes authentication for business and domain control, daily scanning of web sites for malicious software and seal-in-search capabilities for customers. The announcement included details about VeriSign's first third-party integration for seal-in-search with TheFind, an Internet shopping search engine. VeriSign intends to work with multiple third-party web sites and consumer client software vendors such as AVG Technologies to enable maximum benefit and availability for consumers.
By helping identify trusted sites within search results, the integration of the VeriSign Trust Seal into AVG LinkScanner's real-time threat protection benefits consumers. When a user searches the web using AVG LinkScanner, sites that carry the VeriSign Trust Seal will appear in search results with the VeriSign trust mark. Displaying the seal differentiates the site's link from other search results, communicating to consumers that the link leads to a site trusted by VeriSign, which can help drive increased traffic to online businesses.
"In our present era of multiple online threats, it's hard for consumers to know which sites are safe to visit and which are best avoided, creating barriers for businesses as consumers shy away from online interactions," said Fran Rosch, senior vice president of Business Authentication at VeriSign. "The integration of the VeriSign Trust Seal in AVG's LinkScanner, which has more than 110 million active users worldwide, gives consumers additional protection when they go online, and leads to more visitors for online businesses."
"Today's bad guys are smarter and create threats that are more sophisticated, hiding in legitimate web sites that are sometimes poisoned for less than a day, which makes a real-time solution absolutely critical," said Lloyd Borrett, Marketing Manager at AVG (AU/NZ). "Anti-virus software alone cannot address these threats. The VeriSign Trust Seal integration with AVG LinkScanner will help consumers protect themselves by enabling them to know what's behind any web page and trust it, when it's most critical - before they click. Adding the VeriSign seal delivers another layer of visibility into the health, security and safety of a site."
The agreement is part of AVG Technologies' new Global Strategic Alliances (GSA) group 2010 partner program focused on development, licensing initiatives and strategic partnerships in security, social media and the online community.
AVG LinkScanner is free and is included as part of all AVG Anti-Virus and AVG Internet Security products. AVG LinkScanner can be used also as a free stand-alone product alongside other brands of anti-virus and Internet security software. AVG LinkScanner or AVG's other free security products can be downloaded at http://www.avgfree.com.au.
The seal-in-search service is offered to all VeriSign Trust Seal customers. For more information, visit http://www.verisign.com/trust-seal/index.html.
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