May 16, 2012 - Let’s get one thing straight: it’s no longer possible to deny that your life in the physical world and your digital life are one and the same. Meaning, while you are present here on the ground, you also exist online, (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2012 - The Android:FakeInst family of malware seems to be never ending story. Its creators have been trying to trick users into sending premium rate SMS messages for several months now. Just a few days ago, we discovered 25 more apps placed (continue reading...) Read more
May 11, 2012 - Some say there will be a day when the wallet you carry in your pocket or purse will become obsolete. The plan is to eliminate all our credit cards, store cards, and IDs and use our mobile phones as our (continue reading...) Read more
May 11, 2012 - Don’t worry, we’re not gonna watch movies marked with an asterisk . However, from the malware analyst’s point of view, following lines might be somehow “spicy”. We’ll take a look at a suspected false positive (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2012 - To celebrate the release of avast! version 7, we offered a contest on our Facebook page, in which we asked participants to estimate how many active avast! users there would be as of April 30, 2012. Out of the 23,553 (continue reading...) Read more
May 9, 2012 - Imagine a program that scans your computer, detects some errors, and offers to fix them. There are many legitimate programs that do this (for example, antivirus programs), but there are also many fake programs, which do nothing beneficial – they (continue reading...) Read more
May 4, 2012 - avast! Free Antivirus for Mac was launched a mere week ago, and it only took three days to reach the #1 position on CNET’s download.com. avast! Free Antivirus for Mac fulfills the (continue reading...) Read more
April 25, 2012 - Go through your smartphone right now. Look at each app and seriously consider whether you need it. If not, delete it. Then, determine which of the free apps are worth upgrading to the paid versions, since free apps that contain (continue reading...) Read more
April 23, 2012 - Mac computers running the beta version of avast! Free Antivirus for Mac were not infected by the Flashback Trojan. “We’ve confirmed our app’s detection abilities for Flashback within the test lab (continue reading...) Read more
April 23, 2012 - Avast! Free Antivirus 7 has the distinction of being the only free antivirus to receive the Advanced Plus certification rating from the annual “On-Demand Detection of Malicious Software” (continue reading...) Read more
April 19, 2012 - Missing homework used to be blamed on the family dog, but now the focus has shifted to the computer. And sometimes – as this user note shows – malware really is (continue reading...) Read more
April 19, 2012 - Your mobile phone may arguably be your new best friend. There are few people, places, or things in our lives today that get as many hours of attention as your mobile phone or is with you as often (and for (continue reading...) Read more
April 18, 2012 - If your PC is bogged down with useless software and your desktop is jammed with icons and documents, then your PC is next to useless as a productivity tool. Even scarier is the increased likelihood that if you have lost (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Germany leads EU in unpronounceable consumer protection Germany has become the first country to enact a new EU law to protect online consumers against new types of fraud. One visible change will be a “Zahlungspflichtig bestellen” button on internet sites which (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - Stolen phones are a big problem here in the US. Many are stolen in robberies. Robberies are, by definition, violent crimes, and there are many instances of robberies of mobile phones that resulted in serious injury or even death. TechNewsWorld (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - An employee of the Utah State Department of technology must have hit the snooze button when he launched a test server that resulted in the breach of 780,000 Medicaid records including over 250,000 Social Security numbers. The Governor of Utah (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - As a part of the April’s “Patch Tuesday”, Microsoft released a fix for the MS12-024 / CVE-2012-0151 vulnerability. This issue was discovered and researched by us; we have been in contact with Microsoft engineers for the past few months (continue reading...) Read more
April 11, 2012 - Smartphones now make up half of all activated mobile phones. And as we know, smartphones are small computers, capable of performing most of the same functions as a PC, primarily through the use of mobile applications. Some claim that mobile malware (continue reading...) Read more
April 10, 2012 - Modern teenagers would rather socialize with friends on the web than get in a car and go see them in person. Is this a glitch in the matrix, or (continue reading...) Read more
April 10, 2012 - Assassinscreedfrance.fr, a French fan site for the wildly popular computer game, is still infected. For over 8 weeks, the site has been infected with a Trojan java script redirector that sends visitors to a Russian malware site and connects them to (continue reading...) Read more