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Updated December 17 at 9:00 a.m. PST with a comment from Lavasoft.
Lavasoft on Monday unveiled a new antivirus application it hopes will do as well as its runaway hit Ad-Aware.
The encore, Lavasoft Anti-Virus Helix, is Lavasoft's first full-fledged antivirus application. The problem is, it's nearly identical to one that already exists: Avira AntiVir.
A Lavasoft vice president told CNET in an e-mail:
Yes, we do have a technology partnership with Avira for the anti-virus engine technology, as our company expertise is in anti-spyware. We have customers who have been asking us for years to … Read more
