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 - 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 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 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 - 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 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
April 6, 2012 - Some of you may think that Friday (especially the afternoon) is an informal prequel to the weekend relaxation. As such, it should be devoted to putting legs high up on the desk and drinking long drinks from a glass with (continue reading...) Read more
April 3, 2012 - My last post was about how we’re steadily moving towards consumer online privacy regulations over the collection and use of personal online data by businesses. At the same time, however, we’re seeing the US government relentlessly expanding their efforts to (continue reading...) Read more
March 28, 2012 - Monday, the FTC released a report publishing principles and recommendations for consumer privacy. The report, “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change” (summary and full report) provides what the FTC considers best business practices around privacy. (continue reading...) Read more
March 23, 2012 - Inaccurate spelling means more than poor marks at school, it is a billion dollar business opportunity for typosquatters. At a single IP address, the AVAST Virus Lab has identified 8,600 typosquatting sites, registered variations of well-known sites or brands. Two (continue reading...) Read more
March 20, 2012 - The RSA Conference – the largest gathering of security vendors and the companies who buy their products – was held in San Francisco last month. Avast was in attendance, and I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on (continue reading...) Read more
March 20, 2012 - Does this situation seem familiar? I have just downloaded an awesome application which should contain thousands of new desktop pictures. The site name is www.bestsoftwareforever.com and wow, it must be pretty good. So, I run it and then this avast! (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2012 - We like to think that the avast! voice telling us that our virus database has been updated is almost like a pleasant song, something to cheer us all up, reminding us that nobody needs to sing the PC blues. So it’s (continue reading...) Read more
March 15, 2012 - For nearly the past two years Avast has used iYogi to provide free phone support to our users, primarily our free users. With over 150 million users around the world, we naturally have some users that desire phone support. Delivering (continue reading...) Read more