May 14, 2012 - Here is the full text of the #sophospuzzle from this year's AusCERT T-shirt. Cut, paste, solve and get in the running to win a NERF gun. Read more
May 14, 2012 - With rapid growth in the SMB market, and the unique position of SMBs in protecting themselves from the increased risk of security threats across the business and technology landscape, we have been very focused over the past (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
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 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 11, 2012 - I don’t know HOW often I hear these comments when I am out and about: “My son manages all our computers.” “My daughter sends my emails for me.” “My teenage son has installed our security software … and the parental controls.” (No joke!) So, (continue reading...) Read more
April 11, 2012 - It is with great satisfaction that I closed Q1 in EMEA. In fact we achieved a fantastic quarter! We signed a lot of new customers. We also signed innovative new deals with our existing customers. In addition to our Enterprise (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 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 16, 2012 - You’ve seen barcodes all your life. So you know what they look like: rectangles “boxes” comprised of a series of vertical lines. When a cashier scans a barcode, you hear a familiar beep and you are charged for that item. A (continue reading...) Read more
March 14, 2012 - From the “It-could-happen-to-you” file: We innocently clicked on a link which was promoted today on a trustworthy company’s Facebook page. To our surprise, avast! blocked it as a malicious (continue reading...) Read more