Amazon’s new Kindle Fire Tablets and parental controls
Source: Amazon Last week, Amazon announced its new Kindle line up. There’s a lot being said about the red-hot competition between the Kindle Fire, the iPad, Google’s Nexus tablet, and Microsoft’s...
View Article“Avast earns another VB100 award fairly easily”
avast! Free Antivirus just earned another VB100 award, this time in the August 2012 Virus Bulletin comparative review for Windows 7 – with a perfect score of 100%. According to the review, avast!...
View ArticleNew avast! program update [7.0.1473] is here!
Today, we have released a brand new avast! program update, version number 7.0.1473. It’s the last program update we plan to do before version 8 (slated for Q1 2013). I’d like to take this opportunity...
View ArticleNew Toy in the Avast Research Lab
The Avast Research Lab is where some of the Avast’s brightest brains essentially create new ways of detecting malware. These are either features inside the product (such as FileRep and autosandboxing,...
View ArticleIntroducing the New Avast Bug Bounty Program
Hello Avast fans! It is my pleasure to officially announce the new Avast bug bounty program. As a security company, we very much realize that security bugs in software are reality. But we also realize...
View ArticleJoin the avast! Mobile Security Beta test
Would you like a sneak-peek into avast! Mobile Security version 3, avast! Anti-Theft and the debut of a new product, avast! Backup? We are looking for advanced users to participate in the avast! Mobile...
View ArticleThe essential security tool for traveling is on sale!
We’ve got the tool you need when you’re on the road this holiday season and all year long! Stay safe when using public WiFi ‘hotspot’ networks and access your favorite content from your PC with no...
View ArticleOversharers: The NSA Loves Your Openness and the Data You Share via Apps
“It has become second nature to connect various apps like Instagram, SocialCam, Angry Birds, CityVille, and Spotify to your Facebook ID. You just click ‘agree’ without even really knowing what you are...
View ArticleResearch buzz: Undercover technology
The Force is not strong with this one Question of the week: What is the antivirus setting called DeepScreen? DeepScreen is a new technology inside avast! Antivirus 2014. When you are about to run a...
View ArticleDeclaring machine war against malicious Android packages
Do you know the notion “machine war”? If you’re a fan of the Matrix movie trilogy then probably, yes. It denotes the fictional rise of artificially intelligent machines against the human race and...
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