PRAGUE, Czech Republic, December 22, 2011 – AVAST Software, developer of the avast! Antivirus program, has opened an office in Austria dedicated to mobile security issues. The expansion comes on the heels of AVAST’s acquisition of ITAgents, the developer of the Theft Aware mobile phone theft protection and recovery system – and ahead of the launch ...
Free, full- featured suite provides ‘stealth’ and remote-access features PRAGUE, Czech Republic, December 21, 2011 – AVAST Software, the world’s largest provider of antivirus software, will give Android owners an array of “stealth” and remote-access features in the new avast! Free Mobile Security- and it is completely free. “When a smartphone is ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, December 21, 2011 – AVAST Software B.V., a leading global provider of security software delivered through a free-to-premium, or “freemium,” model, announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering of its common ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, November 23, 2011 - avast! BackUp, the simple and automatic online backup solution, has been launched by AVAST Software. Because accidents can always happen, but data loss doesn’t have to. Computers don’t last forever and hard drives have a limited lifespan. Which leads to an interesting paradox: People are putting more and ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, November 10, 2011 - A Brazilian is the 160 millionth registered user of avast! antivirus and has won a sweetheart trip to Prague for two. In fact, it really is a sweet deal, as it will be Fabricia’s honeymoon and she will come with her husband. It took so long to convince her that the offer of an expenses-paid trip for two ...
AVAST warns site owners to “check your plugins" as infections spike PRAGUE, Czech Republic, October 31, 2011 – Researchers at the AVAST Virus Labs in Prague have seen an increase in malware infections within WordPress sites, an open-source application frequently used by bloggers and self-publishers, due to a vulnerability in a popular image plugin ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, October 6, 2011 – AVAST Software has launched avast! EasyPass, the password manager designed to make life simpler and more secure. Modern technology requires passwords for bank accounts, programs, websites and more. While using a single password is a security risk, storing passwords on scraps of paper is an organizational ...
Unicode feature misused to infect computers on a payment-per-install basis PRAGUE, Czech Republic, September 7, 2011 -- “What you see is not what you get,” thanks to a new wave of malware that misuses a special language display feature to trick people into opening supposedly “safe” files. The new exploit misuses features in Unicode – the computing ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, August 10, 2011 – The website of Super Glue Corporation (supergluecorp.com) makers of the world-famous adhesive, has been infected with malware. And after five days, this infection seems to be sticking like glue. The infection was a Trojan JavaScript Redirector which takes visitors through a series of infected sites to the ...
75% of rootkits hit Windows XP; pirated versions provide perfect target for attackers PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 28, 2011 – The AVAST Virus Lab has identified un-patched and often pirated versions of Windows XP as the main vector for rootkits infections. Data from a six-month study catalogued over 630,000 samples and found that 74% of infections ...
More freedom, less hassle, greater protection PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 19, 2011 – AVAST Software has launched avast! Business Protection, its comprehensive IT security software for small and medium-sized businesses. avast! Business Protection uses the award-winning 7.0 antivirus engine and includes a new browser-based central management ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 13, 2011 – AVAST Software researchers have discovered that six out of every ten users of Adobe Reader are running unpatched versions of the program, leaving them vulnerable to a variety of malware attacks. An analysis of avast! antivirus users found that 60.2% of those with Adobe Reader were running a vulnerable ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 20, 2011 – avast! antivirus provides more than protection from malware – it is also a tool for learning new languages. It only takes a couple clicks to expand your foreign language skills by changing the “avast! virus database has been updated” announcement into something more exotic, such as Turkish or Catalan. And if ...
Antivirus may be the only free part of your wedding (PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 7, 2011) – Wedding bells are ringing as we enter the traditional season for getting hitched. Around 90 percent of soon-to-be brides plan their wedding while at work according to AOL. That inevitably means that the majority of planning is done on the web. From cakes ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 1, 2011 – AVAST Software has released a beta version of its avast! free antivirus for Mac. The new app is available for downloading and testing at the avast! user forum. “It’s time for Mac users to start thinking about an antivirus app and this beta shows what they will need for their protection,” said Ondrej Vlcek, ...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, April 27, 2011 – Cybercriminals are misusing a picture filter to encode malware exploits and payloads into Adobe PDF files, reports the avast! Virus Lab. The trick uses the JBIG2Decode filter which is designed specifically for encoding monochrome images. Using the JBIG2Decode filter specifications enables the malicious PDF ...
