Tag Archives: Endpoint Protection

5 questions with Timmy Forson: Business Support Hall-of-Famer

Timothy “Timmy” Forson is one of Avast’s business products finest Support Specialists. He began working at Avast on June 1st, 2015. We sat down to learn more about one of our support Hall-of-Famers. This is 5 questions with Timmy! 1. What is your role at Avast Software? Senior Support Specialist. Basically I support all our […]

Avast for Business: Zero to One Million endpoints protected in less than a year

  Since the launch of Avast for Business, a free, cloud-managed security solution, in February 2015, organizations worldwide have deployed it to protect more than one million PCs, Macs, and servers from cyberattacks and data breaches. Avast for Business is successful across diverse sectors Avast for Business is extremely popular with Education, Non-profits, Retail, Healthcare, IT […]

U.S. schools give an F to 2014-15 IT budget

AVAST Free for Education protects schools while significantly decreasing IT costs for security. The beginning of the 2014/2015 school year is here. Parents and children are ready after a long summer break, but are schools prepared for the start of the new academic year? AVAST surveyed more than 900 school IT professionals who participate in […]

Fake-Alert Scam Targets Mac Users

One of the most prevalent families of recent Trojans is called fake alerts. These Trojans generate fake warning screens that look like they were generated by legitimate security or anti-malware software. The majority of malware within this family attempts to con users by convincing them that their systems are at risk and that they should purchase Read more…