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The Avira Techblog has two languages from now on

Apparently, many German Facebook fans of Avira have difficulties reading English. Because of this reason, we have created a special page for them: http://www.facebook.com/avira.german.   Today, I have created also in the Techblog a German area which is available here: http://techblog.avira.com/de Now it is pretty lonely there, but we will add more articles soon.  

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Never forget that as soon as any information is published on a public website, it doesn’t actually belong to you anymore

Avira Survey Finds Computer Users Don’t Feel Safe on Social Media Sites “This survey was very interesting because it demonstrated that even though social media sites are very popular among the general population, computer users from all over the world have the same concerns,” said Sorin Mustaca, data security expert at Avira.“They are wary of […]

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Vote for my pictures

Click on this link: http://www.breitling.com/contest/vote.php?u=658025144 Login on Facebook and vote my pictures either one by one  or all at once: http://apps.facebook.com/breitling/votepic.php?id=3648 http://apps.facebook.com/breitling/votepic.php?id=3647 http://apps.facebook.com/breitling/votepic.php?id=3646 http://apps.facebook.com/breitling/votepic.php?id=3645   If I get enough votes I might get a voucher to get a flight license.   This is how you vote: 1. Go here: http://www.breitling.com/contest/vote.php?u=658025144 2. You are asked to login to […]

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Scrum on a page

The direct link to the document is here: Scrum on 1 page The source of the document is here: http://scrum-master.de/Downloads/Scrum_on_a_Page (German)

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Avira Survey Shows 50 Percent of People Are Concerned About Banking Online

See the original article here and an interview with me for the Infosecurity US Magazine. I gave the interview on telephone calling the editor from home at 21.00h 🙂 Additional news here: http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3912941/Online-Banking-Security-a-Concern-for-Most-Survey.htm In German: http://www.securitymanager.de/magazin/news_h42825_avira_fast_die_haelfte_der_anwender_ist_besorgt.html That’s fun 😉

Antivirus General News

The AMTSO debate

Since I heard the first time about AMTSO (Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization), in one of the VB Conferences (I think two years ago), I asked myself whether or not this association makes sense. I’ve heard later on that Avira is also part of it. But, I simply forgot about this issue. I recently started […]

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When the whales fly (or Twitter hiccups)

From time to time, the users of Twitter are unable to login on the official website. Sometimes the screen below can be seen, sometimes just a timeout error. Interesting enough, after you refresh a couple of times, you are able to do whatever you were trying to do, and then never get this error until […]

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Deadlock-Proof Your Code: Part 1 & 2

In today’s world of multicore computing, it’s important to make sure that your multithreaded applications scale. A longstanding approach for making the most of multiple processors is to arrange for different resources to be protected by different synchronization objects, or locks. A drawback of this approach is that a bug in your threading model can […]