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AVAST (teddy) has conquered Brazil!

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Brazil is the only Portuguese speaking country in both South and Latin America. It is also fifth biggest country in the world, according to its geographical size and in terms of population. Brazilians represent a fascinating ethnic and cultural fusion, influenced by indigenous, European, African, and Asian cultures. With the upcoming World Cup in 2014 […]

avast! Free Antivirus is the most popular download of 2013

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 […]

AVAST to give away $26,000 in the new year!

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! […]

2013: The year of avast! Antivirus in pictures

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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

Join in the $26,000 AVAST Recommendation Cash Giveaway!

For a few more weeks, you can share AVAST to enter our Holiday Cash contest for the chance to win up to $10,000! I recommended Avast! to my mom and I’ll be recommending it to the rest of my friends and family, as well! ^_~ ~Tiffany C. Did you know that 60% of avast! Antivirus […]

AVAST welcomes Jumpshot fans

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Jumpshot was a cool company even before AVAST Software made them a part of the world’s most trusted antivirus family. They told us about the awesome fan base following the company, so we’re pretty excited to welcome all you cool Jumpshot kids as you make the move from Jumpshot’s current blog, Facebook, Pinterest, and most […]

Browser Ransomware tricks revealed

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It’s not surprising that scared people are the most vulnerable to attacker’s traps, and there is no reason to think it will work differently with computer users. Using this psychology, cybercrooks show an unaware victim an alert page claiming to have found that banned pornography was viewed or stored on their computer. The message goes […]