March 28, 2011 - The subject lines of our blog posts may, or may not be appealing to you, but we hope you’ll enjoy the body of our posts, and if you do, there is now a “Like” button down at the bottom of (continue reading...) Read more
March 21, 2011 - When the Marketing/PR department was trying to transition to the company’s new project tracking system, it was difficult explaining how each task in our department can be so unique… but that didn’t phase Lukas, who (like (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2011 - Not long after I started at AVAST, I started hearing about Martin as “the guy” capable of handling almost anything language or support related. We connected quickly, I think, because of similar backgrounds (in music and education) and responsibilities (kids (continue reading...) Read more
March 8, 2011 - The first week of March brought interesting news from Russia. First, on the morning of March 2, 2011, avast! Free Antivirus surpassed the longtime-leader Adobe Acrobat Reader to become the most (continue reading...) Read more
March 7, 2011 - Friday, March 4, 2011, someone installed avast! Free Antivirus and pushed the “Register” button at JUST the right time: to be the 150 millionth registered user! Good timing indeed! “LEGAC ********” – that is her registration name and, yes, judging from (continue reading...) Read more
March 7, 2011 - In recent years, the need for a Community Manager has become essential, especially when your entire business operates online and your ‘community’ is a global one. Julia was an excellent choice for this position at AVAST, as her experiences both (continue reading...) Read more
March 3, 2011 - From the time I started working at AVAST, I kept hearing about our avast! Forum “Evangelists” – Community members who have helped us greatly over the years by providing tech support to other users, product feedback (including ideas for improvements), (continue reading...) Read more
February 28, 2011 - Unlike Windows XP service pack 2, which included significant security updates, or Windows XP service pack 3 which is required for support from Microsoft, Windows 7 service pack 1 does not have any significantly compelling updates for most users. If (continue reading...) Read more
February 21, 2011 - My interactions with Jitka have been brief – she is a no-nonsense kind of person, and so you’ll almost never see her having a chat at the coffee machine. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen her (continue reading...) Read more
February 18, 2011 - In a few days I’ll introduce a new avast! Blog feature, in which I’ll interview various people involved with AVAST Software – team members, volunteer translators, business partners, avast! Forum “evangelists,” etc. –with 5 questions. This will give you a better (continue reading...) Read more
February 14, 2011 - Today kicks off the RSA conference in San Francisco. This is the 20 anniversary for the RSA conference. RSA stands for Rivest, Shamir and Adleman, who invented RSA encryption. The RSA conference and trade show has grown from an encryption (continue reading...) Read more
February 11, 2011 - INCREDIBLE INDIA The world is (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2011 - I don’t know about you, but I really like taking the new avast! 6.0 features – WebRep, for example — for a test drive. With the beta 6.0 (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2011 - Tip of the hat to Gary Mauvais for alerting me to an article by Nima Bagheri, CEO of U0vd: The Art of Deception for Stuxnet in Iran. While the article doesn't read like the "authoritative" view from Iran, it (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2011 - Słynny Jarząbek Wacław z „Misia” Stanisława Bareji wkrótce może przywitać nowych użytkowników oprogramowania avast!. Głosy w antywirusie avast! wielokrotnie były przedmiotem burzliwych debat. Niezależnie, czy się podobały, czy nie spowodowały, że avast! jest rozpoznawalny na całym świecie. Jesteśmy chyba jedynym (continue reading...) Read more
January 25, 2011 - avast! sports fans around the world want to know: Will the world’s most popular free antivirus program make it to Super Bowl XLV? Yes, it would be a long shot. But (continue reading...) Read more
January 25, 2011 - For reasons that will be obvious after you read it, we won’t be including this link/summary on our Written about us webpage, but it’s funny enough to at least share it on our blog: (continue reading...) Read more
January 16, 2011 - AVAST Software founders (Prague, 2010) A few months ago we posted this article on AVAST Software founders Pavel Baudiš and Eduard Kučera to our Written (continue reading...) Read more
January 7, 2011 - Customer feedback, with other companies and industries I’ve worked in, had a tendency toward primarily negativity. There was very little balance – complaints greatly outweighed any occasional positive stories we would (continue reading...) Read more
January 7, 2011 - I posted this on my "Check Chain Mail and Hoaxes" blog a couple of days ago, but so many people (continue reading...) Read more