During the launch of avast! 2014 in October, CEO Vincent Steckler told a group of international journalists, “On all the download sites around the world, this year, through the end of September, we have 143 million downloads. That’s the most downloaded product – period.” After a few more months, the highest profile download site, CNET’s […]
New Year’s Resolutions 1. Protect my PC, smartphone, and tablet from viruses and theft 2. Recommend avast! Free Antivirus to friends 3. Win up to $10,000! Keeping New Year’s resolutions like Lose weight or Quit smoking can be difficult on your own. But Protect my devices from viruses and theft is a resolution that avast! […]
We bid a wonderful farewell to the old year and welcome the new one with optimism and hope. Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year!
This year AVAST celebrated 25 years in business and reached an astounding 200 million users. We released our leanest, fastest antivirus protection ever, avast! 2014, and we protect over 50 million Android devices with antivirus and anti-theft protection. The team of experts at AVAST published 512 blog posts in 11 languages, posted 21,075 stories on […]
PRIVACY. It’s the word of the year from dictionary.com. With reports of the NSA turning the internet into a vast surveillance platform, FBI agents and hackers monitoring citizens through home appliances, web-browser tracking cookies multiplying like rabbits, and information you post to social networking sites yourself, the loss of individual’s online privacy and the extensive […]
A trend that snuck up on users in 2013, and strikes instant recognition among people who have experienced it, are unwanted browser extensions. The numbers AVAST has collected so far are enormous. More than 4.8 million different browser extensions for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome have been identified in just eight months. “On average, there are […]
Last year, on Christmas day, over 17 million new mobile devices went online. Before the ribbons and wrapping paper could be discarded, cybercrooks started their attacks. In the first half of this year, experts said that 79 percent of all mobile malware attacks were on Android systems. When we asked Ondrej Vlček, AVAST’s Chief Technology […]
All those new PCs, laptops, smartphones and tablets under the tree need antivirus protection immediately because hackers won’t politely wait to start attacking. Give AVAST to your friends, and you can enter our Holiday Cash contest for the chance to win up to $10,000! It’s easy to do. Just follow these steps: 1. Log-in or […]
To all who depend on AVAST,
May Peace, Joy, Hope and Happiness be yours during this Holiday.
Tidings of Joy,
the good folks of AVAST Software
by Caroline James, AVAST Software’s U.S. PR manager The top three security trends of 2013 will only strengthen in 2014. Hackers abusing new payment options, browser toolbars spreading extensively, and new privacy issues have defined this year’s trends of security threats and nuisances. Online fraud goes viral on mobile 2013 has been the year of new […]