Antivirus Companies and their Hometown

[Spirit]

List Updated Guys if there is any mistake or new adding needed please inform me i will do the correction.
Thank you all in making list more accurate and in covering most companies

 

[MrXidus]

It isn't about the location the main HQ is it is where the birthplace of the company was as stated earlier Austrailian.

Again, Source?

 

[Malware Maniac]

It isn't about the location the main HQ is it is where the birthplace of the company was as stated earlier Austrailian.

Again, Source?

Right here. http://malwaretips.com/Thread-Antivirus-Companies-and-their-Hometown?pid=60273#pid60273 this is where I found out about it being in Australia.

 

[MrXidus]

It isn't about the location the main HQ is it is where the birthplace of the company was as stated earlier Austrailian.

Again, Source?

Right here. http://malwaretips.com/Thread-Antivirus-Companies-and-their-Hometown?pid=60273#pid60273 this is where I found out about it being in Australia.

No, that's not a legitimate source, I mean link me to a webpage of the company that says they are/were Australian born/owned.

 

[Malware1]

Avertive - UK
eEye - USA
PSafe - Brazil
Celframe - Malaysia
Clearsight - UK
Commtouch - Israel
ZoneAlarm - Israel
Coranti - Japan
Comcast Xfinity - USA
Cyberoam - USA
Digital Defender - UK
EMCO - Iceland
SafeNet - USA
Faronics - Canada
Netgate - Slovakia
SurfRight - Netherlands
Kristal Security - Estonia

EDIT

Neo - Mexico
Preventon - UK
Lumension - UK
ZeoBIT - USA
Qihoo - China
NoVirusThanks - Italy
Micropoint - China

 

[Spirit]

quite a big list haven't heard name of many in my life
will update 1st post and add them as soon as possible

 

[MrXidus]

Where is the legitimate source for PCTools being an Australian born and owned company?

Please provide links not just words of your own as that's not legitimate.

And do not provide this link as it doesn't mention anything about them being an Australian born and owned company. An office. That doesn't say much, Many vendors have offices and branches all over the world.

I'm sure you're all aware PCTools is owned by Symantec now which is American based.

I changed PCTools from Australia to America until we have adequate proof of PCTools being Australian.

Thanks.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Comodo : United Kingdom

Emsisoft : Austria

Webroot : USA (Colorado)

 

[malbky]

Here check the wikipedia article Xidus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Tools_%28company%29. Pc tools is made and hqed in Australia. So change it back to Australia. I did have a source when saying its Australian.

Also comodo is a US(new jeresy based comapny) and Webroot is a UK based company. Thanks pls update article.

 

[malbky]

Correction Webroot is a US company its prevx who is UK based. Due to that Webroot is showing mixed results.

 

[MrXidus]

-snip-

 

[woomera]

how about malwarebytes? where are they from?

 

[McLovin]

how about malwarebytes? where are they from?

Read this article for some insight.

The company is self-funded, based in California, and operates offices in the US and Europe with a team of researchers and experts around the world. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is available in 36 languages and counting. For more information, please visit us at http://www.malwarebytes.org.

 

[woomera]

thank you mcLovin

 

[Littlebits]

Edit: ZoneAlarm's hometown is San Carlos, CA (USA) where Zone Labs created ZoneAlarm products in 2000 it was bought by CheckPoint an company in Israel four years later. The development center for ZoneAlarm products still remains in San Carlos, CA (USA) but the owners are located in Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zonealarm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_Point

Enjoy!!

 

[Plexx]

ClamAV was aquired by Sourcefire back in 2007. Little is know prior to Sourcefire acquisition, so it is safe to say its from Columbia, Maryland.

Also the reason why ClamAV signatures (despite ClamWIN still being available for windows as a third party module for ClamAV) being used by Immunet is because Sourcefire acquired Immunet back in 2011.

 

[Overkill]

PC Tools (founded in 2003[2]), formerly known as WinGuides.com,[3] was a software company acquired by Symantec, which still sells products under the label of PC Tools. It has headquartered in Luxembourg with offices in Australia, the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Ukraine. The company develops and distributes security and optimization software for the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms. There are over 200 employees. PC Tools has won nearly 100 separate awards for its products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Tools_(company)

 

[McLovin]

Kinda figured that PC Tools wasn't Australian. None of us Aussies are that bright to make an AV.

 

[chabbo]

lavasoft is Germany

 

[Gnosis]

Off the top of my head (just for the fun of it):

Avira, G-Data-----Germany
F-Secure... Finland
Kaspersky, Doctor Web.....Moscow
Avast, AVG........Czech Republic
MBAM..... Switzerland?
Comodo.....USA?

I forget where ESET and Emsisoft, and Bit Defender originate from.