Happy New Year 2014!
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!
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2013: The year of avast! Antivirus in pictures
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 […]
What bugged AVAST users this year: NSA spooked people about privacy
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 […]
What bugged AVAST users this year: Unwanted toolbars that cling like ivy to browsers
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 […]
What bugged AVAST users this year: Mobile malware and fraud
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 […]
Give the gift that protects all year and win loads of cash!
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 […]
Seasons Greetings from AVAST
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
AVAST scans what bugged us this year and will continue to buzz alarm in 2014
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 […]
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Год назад, накануне нового года, было зафиксировано более 17 миллионов мобильных устройств подсоединившихся к Интернету. Еще не была снята защитная пленка с экрана подаренного сматрфона, а подарочная упаковка выброшена, как хакеры начали разрабатывать новые варианты мобильных вирусов. В первой половине этого года, по сообщению экспертов по компьютерной безопасности, атаке подверглись 79% мобильных устройств с операционной […]
avast! 2014 brings a familiar voice to British users
The latest version of avast! Antivirus, avast! 2014 introduced many new features to our customers, but one feature we hope will please our United Kingdom users the most is the new voice they will hear reporting to them that their computer is safe. The voice they will be hearing will be that of Patricia Rykiel, […]