AVG Technologies announced that its family offree and paid Internet security products, AVG 9.0 is now available to the market. AVG claims that Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 and AVG Anti- Virus Business Edition 9.0 have significant enhancements in speed and levels of protection, making them safer and easier to manage.

"AVG's 9.0 small business solutions provide businesses with more powerful and streamlined protection that deliver improved administration, more robust protection, and faster performance - all without getting in the way of business," said l.R. Smith, CEO, AVG Technologies. "This generation of products is taking AVG back to its core strength of low impact, high performance security, and adds substantially to the portfolio of measures available to small businesses, and their employees, in working safe from cyber threats. "

In our discussion with Mr. Ben Kaplan, Director Product Management of AVG Technologies claimed faster performance with higher protection with the new release. According to him, "The user will realise 50 percent faster boot time and performance compared to the previous versions ofAVG".

"The combined anti- / virus/anti-spyware scanner will employs technology to mark files as safe or potentially unsafe during its initial scan, and ignores them in future scans unless the file structure changes", he added.

He also said "According to a report by Cowen and Company, AVG enjoys a 14% market share in the US and II % in Europe. However, with more than 1.2 million users in India, this a key market for AVG and we will continue to seek ways to increase our presence here."