Symantec has observed a new spam tactic targeting YouTube using .avi and .mp3 extensions in URLs by placing a random YouTube link in the email content. This spam threat is also targeting the pharmaceutical industry, as we have previously observed in th…
The ZeroAccess botnet is one of the largest known botnets in existence today with a population upwards of 1.9 million computers, on any given day, as observed by Symantec in August 2013. A key feature of the ZeroAccess botnet is its use of a peer-to-pe…
AVAST Community: Without YOU, we would be nothing There is no exaggeration in this statement. The AVAST Community keeps helping us by sharing security Tips, supporting each other on the AVAST forum, helping to translate our product, most importantly, by recommending our products. You also helped us create the great communities across social media. Every day thousands of […]
AVAST Software, maker of the most trusted antivirus in the world, avast! Free Antivirus, has achieved a VB100 award in the latest Virus Bulletin VB100 comparative review. The VB100 award is given to those products that detect 100% of viruses “in the wild,” using the freshest malware sample sets available, as well as samples not previously seen. In this round, […]
The third round of the AVAST contest has ended. So far we have received outstanding 3500 #SecurityTips. Users participate by sharing their knowledge with others and at the same time they get a chance to win free avast! Mobile Premium and avast! Internet Security licenses, as well as Nexus 7 tablets and a Nexus 4 smartphone. The contest […]
Your website is your window on the world – it’s your shop front, your brand on display and a key route to market and perhaps your most essential sales and marketing tool. And as such it critical to your business: and if something bad were t…
Constantemente los spammers buscan diferentes formas de llamar la atención y llegar a los usuarios de Twitter. En esta ocasión, aprovechándose del gran interés y la creciente expectativa creada alrededor de la serie ‘B…
„HELLO. This is Microsoft tech support and we have detected a serious virus in your computer and we need you to log on right away so we can help you.“ Have you ever received a phone call like this, without you actually requesting support? The call itself should already raise your suspicions. However, when you […]
Recently we announced reaching 3 million issued licenses under the AVAST Free for Education program. From all the US, California ranked first in terms of free licenses. California, the third-largest state by area and number one by population, seems also to want number one in terms of education. Since our AVAST Free for Education program launched in […]
In recent weeks, malware samples resolved as Win32/64:Napolar from AVAST’s name pools generated a lot of hits within our file and network shields. Independently, we observed an advertising campaign of a new Trojan dubbed Solarbot that started around May 2013. This campaign did not run through shady hacking forums as we are used to, but […]