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Google Acquires Web Security Firm
By: Priyanka Pradhan   |   May 30,2007
Web search giant, Google has bought Internet security company, GreenBorder Technologies in order to protect its e-mail and search engine users from malicious or unwanted computer code.

GreenBorder, a Californian company, offers security software that sets up temporary, virtual sessions each time a computer users surfs the Web. It then discards the resulting data once the user has finished surfing. The software allows technicians to insulate corporate networks so that malicious code hidden inside e-mail, instant messages or Web sites is automatically detected and contained.

The software runs Firefox and Internet Explorer in this protected environment, and does the same for downloaded and e-mailed documents.

Industry analysts are speculating on how Google would incorporate GreenBorder into its portfolio. While some are of the opinion that Google will make it a free download for its users and add it in Google pack, others think the software may become a part of Google Apps or Google Desktop.

Google has not disclosed any details on the deal, or how it plans to use the software.

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