Category Archives: Consumer Alerts

The first eco-friendly email virus?

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A few minutes ago, I noticed a new infected email landing in my inbox. The body of the email said: Please find Attached Invoice payment format of Marina private ltd. Thanks Marina.A.Beg Marina Private Limited Plot No. 544-J, Pace City – II Sector – 37, Gurgaon – 122 004 Haryana – Bharat That’s pretty normal […]

How to remove nuisance browser toolbars?

Question of the week: “How do I get this stupid Sweetpacks off my computer?! It’s driving me crazy!” This question didn’t come from an AVAST email, a support ticket, or even our Facebook page. It came directly from my mother as we were talking on the phone one day. Believe me, when you work for […]

Check who won: Top 20 #avastSelfies!

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We celebrated the 106th annual International Women’s Day with the #avastSelfie photo contest. The photo competition is over, and now it’s time to publish the winners. We have decided to award all the entries from the gallery below with the free licenses for avast! Internet Security and avast! teddy bears. Congratulations to the winners, please check your email, we […]

Cyber-hijack unlikely cause of missing Malaysian jetliner

An unknown hacker taking control of a plane using an Android phone’s screen sounds like a frightening, but fictional, scenario from the next international spy movie. But, it’s one of many theories being bandied about to explain what happened to missing Malaysian Airways Flight MH370. This theory, advanced by a British anti-terror expert on Sunday, […]

Fake Korean bank applications for Android – Pt 3

Recently, we discovered an account on GitHub, a service for software development projects, that has interesting contents. The account contains several projects; one of the latest ones is called Banks, and it has interesting source codes.  The account contains information like user name, photo, and email address, but we cannot tell who the guy in […]

Another Data Breach Crisis Looms as Microsoft’s D-Day for XP Forces Security Scramble

Opinion by Ondrej Vlcek, Chief Operations Officer at AVAST Software The termination of security updates by Microsoft to Windows XP will create severe security issues. The already rather unsafe operating system will face even more risks with the missing security updates, but the question is: Should Windows XP users be the only ones worried? Microsoft […]

Creative recommendations win 10 AVAST users $1000 each

The AVAST recommendation contest brought 145,000 new members to the AVAST Community! More than 20,000 people entered the contest and approximately 10% of those entries were think-out-of-the-box creative submissions! Users from USA, Brazil, Russia, India, France, Spain, Poland, India, Germany and many other countries showed us  their creativity; ideas to spread the word about avast! […]

AVAST is top choice for mobile and PC security worldwide

Respected testing lab AV-Comparatives ranks AVAST as the most popular provider of both mobile security and antivirus protection in North America, South America, and Europe, and gaining in Asia. “This survey highlights that AVAST is the most popular name in security in the world,” said Vincent Steckler, CEO of AVAST Software. “We proudly protect more […]

#avastSelfie photo contest

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We celebrated the 106th annual International Women’s Day last Saturday and it became an occasion to organize a fun #avastSelfie photo contest. You have submitted cute, funny and great #avastSelfies, so those who haven’t submitted yet – don’t miss the fun. Contest ends on Sunday, March 14, 2014, at 16:00 p.m. CET.  Get inspired by others and check […]

AVAST will continue to support Windows XP for home and business users

In “internet years” Microsoft’s Windows XP has been around for eons. It was released in August 2001, and in less than one month, on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will cease to provide support and security updates. The security updates patch vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malware and help to keep users and their data […]