AVAST antivirus developers strive for perfection in malware detection. Cybercriminals do not rest with their evil schemes to take advantage – mostly economical – over poor users. Always, but especially since version 8 of AVAST, we have improved the detection of recently discovered malware by trying to know them before our users are threatened. The […]
The first round of the AVAST #SecurityTip contest has ended. 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 has four rounds and […]
In a recent survey, we found that over 96%[1] of schools in the United States are likely to face a major technology crisis in the new year when Windows XP will no longer be supported by Microsoft. Educational institutions of all sizes around the world are going to have to foot the bill of upgrading […]
The top active members in one of our largest and most active communities, the AVAST forum, are called evangelists. These evangelists are technically skilled people who love to help and guide our users, free or paid, through the technology and security jungle. They try to keep things simple for all levels and in this blog, […]
When we launched the AVAST Free for Education program last November, some journalists were asking us “what’s the catch”… They didn’t quite understand why we would do such a thing. I guess for them “advertising” means TV commercials, print ads, online banners, radio adverts, billboard, outdoor, and so on. In the world of antivirus companies, […]
Norwalk and La Mirada are two suburban cities in Los Angeles County, with a combined population of 155 thousand people. The Norwalk-La Mirada School District embodies 17 elementary, 6 middle, and 5 high schools – for a total of 20,000 students and 2,000 staff and faculty. Viet Tran, the Network Administrator, applied for a free […]
New York City Department of Education could save as much as $2.5million this coming school year, just by using AVAST antivirus software. That’s a MASSIVE saving, money which could be better spent on upgrading IT hardware, or introducing new technology such as tablet computers to the classroom. In total, we are already protecting some 72,000 […]
On July 30, we established the avast! Mobile Beta Testers Google+ community for advanced users to help us test the new BETA version of our Android protection. It was the first time we used a social network to make our product available for testing. The goal was to look for potential bugs and errors and report […]
Dear Tom Torlakson (and the California Department of Education), I’d like to personally congratulate you: CALIFORNIA is now the number 1 state benefiting the most from our AVAST Free for Education program! (surpassing Illinois) Over 160 Californian schools, school districts, libraries and universities – the most from any one State – use our […]
Yes, if your computer gets infected by Urausy Lockscreen, it will get locked. Luckily, not forever! Avast protects you against it. In this blogpost we will introduce an infamous lockscreen called Urausy. We will look at its special anti-debugging and anti-reverse engineering tricks, at its communication protocol, and determine what the conditions (if any) are […]