G Data
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G Data Software is a collection of anti-malware
solutions by G Data Software, Inc. It was founded in Bochum
, Germany
in 1985 with the North America
n subsidiary
currently located in Durham, North Carolina
, U. S. A.
G Data is able to achieve higher detection rates than other products through the use of multiple scanning engines from Avast and BitDefender
. G Data provides several security products that are targeted at Home and Business markets.
* Business Security
Malware
Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming that is designed to disrupt or deny operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or exploitation, or gain unauthorized access to system resources, or that otherwise exhibits abusive behavior...
solutions by G Data Software, Inc. It was founded in Bochum
Bochum
Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
in 1985 with the North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
n subsidiary
Subsidiary
A subsidiary company, subsidiary, or daughter company is a company that is completely or partly owned and wholly controlled by another company that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a...
currently located in Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina
Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake County. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, and the 85th-largest in the United States by population, with 228,330 residents as of the 2010 United States census...
, U. S. A.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
G Data is able to achieve higher detection rates than other products through the use of multiple scanning engines from Avast and BitDefender
BitDefender
BitDefender is an antivirus software suite developed by Romania-based software company Softwin. It was launched in November 2001, and is currently in its 15 build version...
. G Data provides several security products that are targeted at Home and Business markets.
Features
Some of the features that G Data's solutions support are:- Safe surfing
- Safe shopping
- Safe emailing and chatting
- Protection against spywareSpywareSpyware is a type of malware that can be installed on computers, and which collects small pieces of information about users without their knowledge. The presence of spyware is typically hidden from the user, and can be difficult to detect. Typically, spyware is secretly installed on the user's...
- Safe online bankingOnline bankingOnline banking allows customers to conduct financial transactions on a secure website operated by their retail or virtual bank, credit union or building society.-Features:...
- Blocks spamSpamSpam may refer to:* Spam , a canned pork meat product* Spam , unsolicited or undesired electronic messages* E-mail spam, unsolicited or undesired email messages* "Spam" , a comedy sketch...
- Protection against hackingHackingHacking may refer to:* Computer hacking, including the following types of activity:** Hacker , activity within the computer programmer subculture** Hacker , to access computer networks, legally or otherwise...
- Parental controls
- Data backup
- Data recoveryData recoveryData recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk drives, solid-state drives , USB flash drive,...
- Security tuning
- Data safe
Versions
* Home Security- AntiVirus
- InternetSecurity
- TotalSecurity
- NotebookSecurity
* Business Security
- AntiVirus Business
- AntiVirus Enterprise
- ClientSecurity Business
- ClientSecurity Enterprise
- EndpointProtection Business
- EndpointProtection Enterprise
- MailSecurity
Awards and tests
* av-comparatives.org- Gold award for highest detection rate of products tested (99.7%)
- Gold award for highest proactive detection rate of new/unknown malware (~61%, with 20 false positives)