H+BEDV unites AntiVir -and- AVIR Av's - 02/01/2006

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Unification of AVIRA and AntiVir Product Lines

"We are pleased to inform you that AVIRA GmbH and its sister company H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH are going to unite their businesses to provide you an even better service and an extended line of products.

One aspect of this deal is the unification of our product line.
Starting from 1 February 2006 the existing AVIRA products are substituted by the high-quality AntiVir products. Updates for the existing AVIRA products will still be available.

All AVIRA customers will receive a free upgrade to the corresponding AntiVir product plus 6 month of extra license time free of charge, if they do migrate to the solutions before 1 March 2006. A product overview and free trials of the solutions can be found here (http://www.antivir.de/en/products/)."

http://www.avira.com/en/pages/Unification_...duct_Lines.html (http://www.avira.com/en/pages/Unification_AVIRA_and_AntiVir_Product_Lines.html)+

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Tettnang, 2 February 2006
-{ Quote: "– H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH will change its company name and will be operate under the new name Avira, starting on 1 March. The renaming signalizes a new chapter in the company history: the producer wants to spur on the market penetration of its proven security solution AntiVir internationally and benefit from the synergy effects. The “Made in Germany” seal of quality will not be affected hereby.

Besides H+BEDV, the two sister companies Personal Products GmbH and the homonymous AVIRA GmbH will come together under the trademark of Avira GmbH, which will be headquartered in Tettnang. AntiVir Personal Products has so far concentrated on the security demands of the private users. The first AVIRA GmbH until now focused on the international business customers and provided security solutions on a global scale. With its new identity, the security specialist from Tettnang creates a central contact point for its worldwide private and business customers as well as for the strategic and distributional partners. The synergy effects will be mainly used to further develop the products.

“AntiVir remains AntiVir as the business and private customer product family is a worldwide acknowledged IT-security brand. The only thing that will change is our manufacturer name, under which we will present our product range from now on. Avira will lead us to a better score on the international market”, underlines Tjark Auerbach, CEO from H+BEDV and main shareholder of the sister companies Personal Products GmbH and AVIRA GmbH. " }-

Source: AntiVir News (http://www.antivir.de/en/press/press_releases_2006/index.html?L=2&tx_ideaavpresse_pi1)