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1 sierpnia (wczoraj) na stronie Friskpojawił się komunikat o przejęciu całości firmy przez jednego z amerykańskich i światowych liderów w dziedzinie bezpieczeństwa i usług internetowych - Commtouch . Frisk to islandzka firma założona niemal 20 lat temu (1993) i przez ten czas rozwijająca swój sztandarowy produkt czyli F-PROT, którego silnik znajdziemy w F-secure, Returnilu czy Spyware Terminator.
Cytat z oficjalnego komunikatu Commtouch, do którego linkuje również Frisk

Cytat: Acquisition accelerates Commtouch’s launch of an expanded range of antivirus solutions for the OEM market

McLean, VA – Aug 1, 2012 – Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH), a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for security companies and service providers, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Iceland-based FRISK Software International’s antivirus business.

FRISK is a leading provider of antivirus solutions for the OEM, corporate, and consumer markets. Its well-established brand, F-PROT, has been used by millions of people and organizations for more than 20 years. The acquisition allows Commtouch to utilize FRISK’s staff and IP to dramatically accelerate its launch of white label antivirus solutions for the OEM market. It will also enable Commtouch to provide more services and applications, as well as enhance the company’s SaaS capabilities.

FRISK currently provides important technology used by Commtouch’s antivirus engine, and the two engineering teams have worked together for more than 20 years. In addition to leading-edge technology, FRISK brings with it many highly talented staff. FRISK’s founder, Friðrik Skúlason, will join Commtouch as vice president of antivirus technologies. He was the first to develop heuristic detection technology that is now widely used in antivirus products. As a testament to its capabilities, FRISK has been awarded the Virus Bulletin VB100 numerous times.
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The deal is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2012. Commtouch will continue to support the needs of all FRISK customers, channel partners and distributors, while also maintaining FRISK’s F-PROT and Lykla-Pétur brands. The acquisition:

Underscores Commtouch’s commitment to antivirus technology
Expands offerings with a white label AV application for vendors and service providers
Accelerates Commtouch’s SaaS antivirus strategy
Brings key intellectual property
Provides operational synergies

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Cytat: About Commtouch

Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) provides proven Internet security technology to more than 150 security companies and service providers including 1&1, Check Point, F-Secure, Google, Microsoft, Panda Security, Rackspace, US Internet, WatchGuard and Webroot, for integration into their solutions. Commtouch’s GlobalView™ and patented Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) technologies are founded on a unique cloud-based approach, and protect effectively in all languages and formats.Commtouch’s Command Antivirus utilizes a multi-layered approach to provide award winning malware detection and industry-leading performance.

Commtouch technology automatically analyzes billions of Internet transactions in real-time in its global data centers to identify new threats as they are initiated, enabling our partners to protect end-users from spam and malware, and ensure safe, compliant browsing. The company’s expertise in building efficient, massive-scale security services has resulted in mitigating Internet threats for thousands of organizations and hundreds of millions of users in 190 countries.

The key Commtouch services - Anti-Spam, Zero-Hour™ Virus Outbreak Protection, GlobalView™ Mail Reputation Services, GlobalView™ URL Filtering, and Command Antivirus® – all provide information for each other in a comprehensive, self-learning feedback loop that learns locally as well as globally. Relying on Commtouch enables licensing partners to focus on their own areas of expertise, secure in the knowledge that Commtouch is always well ahead of the latest Internet threats.

Commtouch was founded in 1991, is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary with offices in Sunnyvale, Calif and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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łezka się w oku kręci jak przypomnę sobie f-prot''a dla dos''a Wówczas to była potęga!

ichito napisał(a):Frisk to fińska firma założona niemal 20 lat temu (1993)

Frisk to islandzka firma

Ratatui napisał(a):Frisk to islandzka firma

Prawda:

Cytat: Name: FRISK Software International
Address: Thverholt 18, 105 Reykjavik, Iceland

Jesuuu...ale wpadka
Już poprawione.

ichito napisał(a):F-secure, Returnilu czy Spyware Terminator.

W F-Secure? F-Secure korzysta z BitDefendera.

A_B_C napisał(a):W F-Secure? F-Secure korzysta z BitDefendera.

No nie wiem...może teraz tylko z tego, ale sprawa Frisk to już historyczne raczej sprawy i wydaje mi się, że się nie mylę...to cytat z 2003 roku

Cytat: F-Secure uses Orion, F-Prot and Kaspersky engines together, as I know. That''s the relationship.

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a to z 2004

Cytat: I''ll try... My memory is a bit fuzzy on some of this... So don''t take
this as fact. (Hopefully, Frisk or Nick will fill in or correct the
missing or mangled bits)

If memory serves the story goes something like this...

1) Frisk Created F-Prot.

2) Frisk licensed the F-Prot engine to Command Software Systems and
Data Fellows (no F-Secure).

3) Command Software and Data Fellows developed and sold anti-virus
software branded as "F-Prot Professional" in their respective
territories. (IRCC North America & the UK for Command Software and the
European continent for Data Fellows.

4) At some point in the late 90s Data Fellows and Command Software
started selling their products globally.

5) Command Software rebranded their version of F-Prot Professional as
Command Anti-virus.

6) Data Fellows rebranded their version of F-Prot Professional as
F-Secure Anti-Virus and entered into a licensing agreement with a
Kaspersky Labs and began integrated both the F-Prot and AVP scanning
engines into FSAV.

7) Data Fellows changed its name to F-Secure and went public.

8) Command Software was acquired by or merged with Authentium.

9) (recently) F-Secure replaced F-Prot engine their own Orion & Lybra
engines... The Orion engine is heuristic engine designed specifically
to detect Win32 malware . The Lybra engine handles script and macro
viruses.

(This make perfect since to me BTW. The F-Prot and KAV engines
essentially replicate each others detection capabilities, at least in
terms of "legacy" viruses... Why continue using two scanning engines
that essentially duplicate each others detection capabilities when you
can replace one then with a scanning engines that are specifically
designed to deal with the current and/or future malware.)

Cheers-

Jeff Setaro

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