The AVAST community has proven its amazing loyalty and support over and over. Every day we receive messages from around the world. Your comments – positive and negative – help us improve our products and services. Your messages of appreciation for delivering a free antivirus solution prove that we are helping millions of people stay secure, and […]
avast! Anti-Theft is a separate program included in the avast! Free Mobile Security app. You can install it at the same time as avast! Mobile Security, or later, during a separate installation. Its unique capabilities help you recover your phone by controlling it remotely with SMS commands or via the Internet by logging in to your AVAST account. The app can also […]
Even the most careful planning sometimes cannot mitigate human error. A week ago, a photograph of the World Cup Security Center showing the WiFi password on a whiteboard in the background was published on the internet and immediately retweeted numerous times. Wanna know the pwd for the Brasil world cup security center WiFi nw? It’s […]
On occasion, even the most well thought-out systems can break down. In the antivirus business, we try hard to minimize something termed false positive. A false positive is merely a mistake or a false alarm. It happens when your antivirus software erroneously identifies a file or a download as being malicious. The AVAST Virus Lab […]
AVAST is the #1 Best Employer in our home country of Czech Republic. We have a multinational team and offices in Silicon Valley, Austin, Munich, and Hong Kong. Professionals from developers to support specialists to marketers want to join our team. To make sure they secure a spot with our innovative company, potential employees start […]
avast! GrimeFighter is one of the most popular new products among AVAST users. However, many of you still don’t know the benefits of it or what avast! GrimeFighter does. Therefore we have prepared a series of articles with a “movie theme” to show you the functionality of our Grime-fighting minions! The first one, Learn everything […]
At the beginning of 2014, gaming platforms such as League of Legends and other video-game servers were brought down by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks cost professional gamers thousands in advertising revenue. E-Sports journalist ‘Dendra’ Davor Miljkovic, spoke to Jiri Sejtko, the Director of the AVAST Virus Lab, about how to handle DDoS attacks. […]
V České republice právě opět probíhá emailová kampaň, jejímž cílem je podvodný zisk finančních prostředků. Mnoho našich uživatelů dostalo emailovou zprávu, která vypadá zhruba takto: Jedná se o novou variantu kampaně, o které jsme Vás informovali před 2 měsíci (Pozor na falešné pohledávky od Vaší banky). Zpráva opět obsahuje spustitelný soubor v příloze zabalený v […]
avast! Mobile Security protects from an Android flaw which leaves nearly all new smartphones and tablets vulnerable to attack. Last week, a wave of articles about a newly discovered Android security flaw flooded the Internet. They sounded a warning, similar to this: “A flaw in the Android operating system may leave many Android phones and […]
Earlier this week AVAST released a new Android app called avast! Ransomware Removal that will remove SimplLocker from infected devices. SimplLocker blocks access to files on infected mobile devices by encryting them. Without our free ransomware removal tool, infected users have to pay $21 to regain access to their personal files. SimplLocker is the first ransomware that actually encrypts […]