Matsuda Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 IT security firm Avast Software has acquired Jumpshot, a company that provides solutions designed to clean up, speed up and protect PCs.The concept behind Jumpshot solutions is interesting because they’re powered by minions that fight “grime,” a term which describes viruses, spyware, trialware, bloated toolbars and pop-ups. The minions are led by Officer Pete. Each of them has a specific task. For instance, Kobayashi kills viruses, Trojans, scamware and spyware. Nikita, on the other hand, unclutters the web browser and boosts its speed.Jumpshot was founded in 2010, but the company remained in stealth mode until last year when it went to Kickstarter for support. “With the largest AV user base in the world, AVAST has built the best protection in the industry. The Jumpshot minions leverage crowd driven intelligence to optimize PC’s for speed and efficiency. We’re excited to deliver Jumpshot to the AVAST community by the end of this year,” noted Jumpshot Founder Pedram Amini.Jumpshots’s optimization technology will become available to Avast customers around the winter holiday season. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyon275 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Awesome :DThanks for the information :):cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manju Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 possible introduction as a standalone tool or added to IS or Premier versions? :showoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinyredbeetle Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 great another crap tool that will magically make my pc faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylemessiah Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) great another crap tool that will magically make my pc faster.Im with you,Beyond buying a faster cpu, adding more memory or adding an SSD, the ONLY software that will make your PC run better/more efficiently is a defragmentation tool...thats itAnything else is snake oil....I just hope they make it easy to opt out of or disable, otherwise ill switch from using itGod hewlp them if they put it in the free version or add nags for this snake oil to the free versionI can almost imagine the nightmare scenario of the free version having a ton of nags more than it does to upgrade to the full version for all that crapWhoever at Avast thought buying that crap was a good idea should be burned at the stake Edited September 25, 2013 by stylemessiah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Smart move or not, expansion is one good way to assure that you will not fail as easy in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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