Google bought today a new company, GreenBorder Technologies, an online security startup, which is based in the same city as the Internet search giant. GreenBorder developed a security software which forms secure temporary “virtual” Internet sessions.

“Any type of activity and interaction, while you are on the Internet, will be directed to the protected [sandbox] environment,” claims GreenBorder, with the software encasing each Web page in a ‘green border’ to show the user they are protected in their temporary virtual environment. Once the user ends its work session the data stored are discarded.

GreenBorder offered a free consumer version of its programs and a paid edition of its applications marketed at enterprise users, including a version that specifically promised to secure computers using Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Outlook products for business users, dubbed GreenBorder Professional Edition. The business version is priced at $100 and the personal edition is offered free of charge.

Although the company stopped the download of its software, but announced it will offer maintenance for its current users. "GreenBorder Technologies has been acquired by Google. We will continue to support our existing customers through the end of their current subscriptions", the company posted the statement on its website.

Google didn’t disclose the financials terms of the deal or the future plans for the acquired software. Some analysts believes that Google’s venture in security software market might be a sign that the Internet search giant are preparing a response to Windows OneCare, the security suite unveiled last year by Microsoft.