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Google takes its ad business very seriously, as it should since it generates most of its revenue. In particular, it takes care in ensuring that its ads don't end up on spammy sites or software.
Last week, Google published a blog post explaining its effort to maintain a quality standard for the publishers that r... |
23 April 2013
12:41 GMT |
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According to AVG’s latest “Insight” report, 90% of game hacks and pirated copies of popular games hosted on file sharing and torrent websites contain malware. Experts say that the popularity of games such as World of Tanks, Minecraft, Runescape, League of Legends and World of Warcraft – play... |
16 April 2013
05:49 GMT |
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The popular AVG Anti-Virus software incorrectly flagged a vital Windows system file as Trojan horse, causing a failed boot in case the user opted to remove the “infection.”
According to an official post by the company, the anti-virus application identified the wintrust.dll Windows system file as Generic3... |
15 March 2013
03:40 GMT |
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Security solutions provider AVG Technologies has announced that J.R. Smith is no longer the company’s chief executive officer (CEO). However, Smith will not leave the company, instead he will become a member of the Supervisory Board.
AVG has already contracted executive search firm SPMB to find Smith a success... |
8 March 2013
04:47 GMT |
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Many people are planning to take trips during the winter break. However, since most of them will probably not leave home without their precious gadgets, security firm AVG Technologies has issued a short advisory to help users ensure that all their devices are properly protected.
First of all, users are advised to pa... |
20 February 2013
16:31 GMT |
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When we think about individuals who write malicious code we most often think that they’re adults. However, according to security solutions provider AVG Technologies, even children as young as 11 years old are capable of writing malware.
In most cases, youths start writing malware to show off their skills to th... |
8 February 2013
10:24 GMT |
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Security vendor AVG has released a Safe Browser for iOS customers who are concerned about privacy and identity threats online. The free app is universal, suitable for both iPhone and iPad use, including the latest generation of iDevices. AVG Safe Browser protects users from online scams and attacks, the security com... |
30 November 2012
08:08 GMT |
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AVG LinkScanner, a software solution designed to provide secure browsing and search, has been promoted to version 12.0 which includes a number of new features, such as enhanced notification placement, automatic launch, and more.
Designed to protect users against exploitive, malicious and phishing websites in real ti... |
28 October 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Security Firm AVG has released its Community Powered Threat Report for the third quarter of 2012. The study focuses on the 2.0 version of the BlackHole exploit kit, the evolution of malware and other threats that marked the past quarter.
According to AVG, the BlackHole exploit kit leads both the toolkit and the malw... |
25 October 2012
07:18 GMT |
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AVG Technologies has officially launched AVG CloudCare, a product that’s designed to help IT resellers and managed services providers (MSPs) in offering efficient security solutions to small businesses.
The problem with providing cyber protection services to small businesses is that they don’t have the ... |
12 October 2012
10:36 GMT |
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AVG released the 2013 line of products and it looks like they went the extra mile to offer a completely new experience, from layout to performance and reliability. The new interface matches perfectly the modern UI in the upcoming Windows 8, as all the menus, which have been turned into tiles, and the buttons are in ... |
6 September 2012
07:00 GMT |
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In order to ensure that adults and their children are protected from online threats such as scams, phishing and potentially dangerous websites, AVG has released the iOS and Windows Phone versions of its Family Safety web browser.
“With people increasingly using mobile devices to access social networks and brow... |
14 June 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Georgian security researcher Ucha Gobejishvili has pointed out that AVG identifies many of the webpages of Panasonic Australia’s official blog as containing JavaScript Obfuscation, a method utilized by cybercriminals to mask their malicious elements. Curiously, when checked with Virus Total, the links appear t... |
14 May 2012
10:54 GMT |
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AVG Technologies released its Community Powered Threat Report for the first quarter of 2012. One of the most interesting parts of the study reveals that social media networks have become great mediums for cybercriminals to push their pieces of malware onto mobile devices.
“We detected a big increase in the use... |
30 April 2012
10:43 GMT |
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AVG Technologies, a world renowned security provider, has recently released the results of a survey trying to determine which U.S. city inhabitants are most gullible when it comes to digital scams.The residents of 35 major cities were put to the test and the results were conclusive.The study showed that 40 percent of... |
5 September 2011
06:26 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices and AVG Technologies have just announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement to deliver a free premium six-month license of AVG Anti-Virus to all customers who purchase an AMD boxed processor, also known as Processor-in-a-Box or PIB.
The two companies are joined in their pa... |
10 February 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A bad update issued by AVG to its users today crippled numerous computers running Windows 7 64-bit, which failed to boot into the OS after being restarted.“We are sorry to report that we have identified a potential conflict between one of our recent updates (3292) and a significant number of systems running on ... |
2 December 2010
12:13 GMT |
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AVG Internet Security has been designed as a complete protection suite against all sort of malware. Apart from this, it can keep an eye on network traffic through its firewall module, or shield your inbox with anti-spam filters. Another module can check the traffic for dangerous connections and stop them.Although it ... |
26 November 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Security company AVG has released the results of an interesting study showing the risk of stumbling unto a malicious website around the world. The results show that the risk varies wildly from country to country. The riskiest place to surf the web is Turkey where one in ten AVG users was faced with a potentially mali... |
24 August 2010
10:51 GMT |
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A buggy detection routine caused antivirus products from AVG to improperly tag a script from Google's reCAPTCHA as being infected with a threat called HTML/Framer. The false positive incident prevented AVG from accessing popular websites.The problems started yesterday with users reporting seeing the alert on web... |
16 July 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Founded in 1991 as Grisoft, AVG Technologies is one of the European pioneers of the antivirus industry. Amongst other achievements, the Czech security vendor was one of the first antivirus companies to adopt the freeware business model as a method of promoting its commercial product line.In today's crowded antiv... |
11 May 2010
07:07 GMT |
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This article is also available in Spanish: AVG Free Anti-Virus vs. Avira AntiVir PersonalTalking about a free anti-virus a few years back would have been blasphemy, while today, users have the luxury to be picky about the security brand to entrust the protection of their system to. And even if nowadays there are at ... |
24 April 2010
07:51 GMT |
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Este artículo está también disponible en inglés: Antivirus Freebies: AVG and Avira Hablar de antivirus gratuitos hace unos años hubiera sido una blasfemia, mientras que los usuarios de hoy se permiten el lujo de ser exigentes con las marcas de seguridad a las que quieren encome... |
24 April 2010
07:51 GMT |
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The developer of one of the most widespread peer-to-peer file sharing applications, LimeWire, has partnered with AVG Technologies to protect its customers. The software company has licensed the AVG Anti-Virus SDK engine and integrated it into the commercial version of its product.LimeWire is a Java-based cross-platfo... |
12 March 2010
10:20 GMT |
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In the race of antivirus developers to provide users with the most comprehensive security solution, Internet Security suites have emerged on the market. Not only do they hold the capacity to protect your computer against viruses, spyware and digital threats of the kind, but it is also equipped with components to keep... |
29 January 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Anti-SpamAs any respectable security suite, AVG’s product offers protection against the nagging spam messages reaching our inbox. Despite an email client’s set of rules for filtering your messages so that the inbox folder receives as little unwanted mails as possible, redirecting them to the junk folder i... |
29 January 2010
11:11 GMT |
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LinkScannerThe suite approaches the security of your computer from all angles, minimizing the threat risk as much as possible. With LinkScanner, AVG allows you to be informed of the trust-level of the websites you decide to navigate to after submitting a search query to the most popular search engines today (Google, ... |
29 January 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has been little shy of praising the latest version of the AVG Security Toolbar for Internet Explorer as a “great example of the Guidelines for add-on developers in action.” According to Paul Cutsinger and Herman Ng, from the IE team, the AVG Security Toolbar team is setting a new standard in ter... |
7 October 2009
05:55 GMT |
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AVG is pushing its security solutions one step further, and, in this regard, it has produced a new development milestone of the next iteration of AVG Internet Security. Customers that want to jump the gun and see what the future of AVG looks like are already able to download Beta Build 646a1653 of AVG Internet Securi... |
3 September 2009
12:03 GMT |
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Although the security firm is quiet about its plans, a job posting on the company's website reveals that AVG is looking for a senior software developer who is familiar with the Mac OS X platform, according to The Register. AVG Antivirus is a competent security solution for Windows platforms, available in free an... |
3 July 2009
10:14 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor AVG have discovered that a section from the website of the Spelthorne Borough Council in the UK has been hacked and is serving exploits. According to their analysis, this is not the first time it happens. The incident has been reported by AVG's own Chief Research Offic... |
10 March 2009
07:05 GMT |
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Just ahead of the public Beta of Windows 7, Microsoft has started recommending security solutions that can be integrated with the next iteration of its Windows client even at this early stage in the platform's development. The first products designed to protect users running Windows 7 Beta come from Kaspersky an... |
5 January 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Users of the popular AVG antivirus product reported on the company's support forum that an Adobe flash component had been detected as a generic password stealing Trojan. This was caused by a faulty definition file that was pushed to users on Friday and followed a similar incident that occurred earlier this week,... |
15 November 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Users of the popular AVG antivirus software had an unpleasant surprise when they were locked outside of the Windows operating system because they accepted a confirmation dialog saying that user32.dll (Windows User API Client DLL) is a Trojan component and needs to be deleted. AVG issued an update to fix the problem a... |
12 November 2008
09:20 GMT |
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People that use the AVG anti-virus, along with the ZoneAlarm firewall, had an unpleasant surprise when AVG suddenly started to block and quarantine Check Point's popular firewall solution. The false positive was caused by a bogus malware definition file update and AVG eventually addressed the issue.This problem ... |
17 October 2008
08:24 GMT |
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Yesterday, Grisoft announced that a new version of AVG Antivirus Free would be released today, April 24, that was supposed to come with several new functions beside the ones already included in the application. As expected, the new AVG Antivirus Free 8.0 was rolled out today, so if you want to download it, all you ne... |
24 April 2008
10:14 GMT |
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AVG Antivirus is one of the most popular products on the market, especially thanks to the freeware license which allows people to use it as long as they want without paying for it. Sure, there are some limitations, such as the lack of some functions, but since it's quite efficient and available for free, AVG qui... |
23 April 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Security company Grisoft, the owner of the famous AVG antivirus, announced the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs, another security vendor, which would bring several new features to the freeware antivirus. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the two companies said that the transaction was supposed to be... |
5 December 2007
08:20 GMT |
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The HP Blackbird 002 will come with AVG Anti-Virus Professional 7.5 pre-installed and with one year's license right out of the box. This is a great boon for gamers, if you ask me. Sure, some of them are tech-savvy, but let's not forget that a lot of gamers are actually children that don't know much abo... |
12 September 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Yesterday I wrote a material about a free anti-spyware that was Vista compatible, and now, here's any anti-virus to go with it! It's the AVG Anti-Virus Free 7.5.485a1117! Not only Vista compatible, but works on older versions of Windows as well. You can safely download it from our site, by clicking this lin... |
5 September 2007
06:33 GMT |
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The need for mobile phone software protection has never been greater than now, as malicious applications have turned to this new and unprotected environment. Anti Virus Guard (AVG) from Grisoft aims at this target, that needs efficient protection from the growing threats.The fact that mobile phones did not come with ... |
13 June 2007
08:01 GMT |
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