For seven years, the CARO Workshop has been hosted in Europe. It is an outstanding technical meeting, attended by some of the best malware researchers in the world. In 2014, the CARO workshop comes to America. ~CARO’s conference official website We are proud and happy to introduce you to our AVAST speakers and Security Experts […]
Smartphone owners are careless about security, says smartphone survey. Guys are more likely to get a virus on their smartphone than girls (36% vs 32%), and more than one third (34%) of survey respondents don’t have any anti-theft or antivirus security on their smartphones. Add to that nearly half of the people AVAST polled in […]
They might look like funny characters from an animated movie, but the avast! GrimeFighter minions are a deadly force against the grime that accumulates in your computer over time. This crack team of animated minions brings AVAST users new technology that speeds, tunes up, and extends the lifespans of PCs. avast! GrimeFighter is being launched […]
Saturday morning at 7:30 AM, 130 orange antivirus soldiers met up at the Prague Airport. We were flying to Tromsø, a city north of the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway. For the next 24 hours there won’t be any sleeping or a hot shower. Instead, our plan is to chase the aurora borealis (aka the Northern Lights) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
Happy International Women’s Day! As we celebrate the 106th annual International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8th, it is an occasion to thank women everywhere who trust us to protect their devices with avast! Antivirus products. To acknowledge women’s contributions to information technology, we took a closer look this week at women’s role in the IT industry, […]