One of the problems of the today’s online world is the fact that from far away, people are only just statistics in a dashboard. You don’t know actually who your readers or visitors are, what are their needs, their wishes, their thoughts. We want to make the Techblog better, so that it suits your needs. […]
I finally reached 1000 contacts on LinkedIn. Why “finally” ? Because it took me more than 10 years to reach this … Why do I do want to have so many contacts? Because : I like to be networked I think that I deliver a value to my contacts – the IT_SecurityNews Twitter feed which […]
Facebook launched six month ago the AV Marketplace and according to the company, they had over 30 million views. Since yesterday, 15.10.2012, Avira is also present there with two solutions: For PC – Avira Free Antivirus and for Mac, Avira Free Mac Security. Make sure that once you visit the page you search for the Avira solutions. The […]
As previously announced, we continue to answer questions received from the readers of the PC.COM magazine. Right now I am using licensed Avira Internet Security, how do I know that my computer is really safe from Trojan, virus, malware, spyware, etc. However, there was a time when I plugged in a flashdrive with an apparent virus into […]
There is not a single week when we don’t see a new Facebook scam. We name scam everything that tries to fool the user to do something which he usually wouldn’t do or shouldn’t do: click on something – called also clickjacking “like” something – called also likejacking pay for something which is free pay […]
Avira launched the 2013 product line back in late September. Now, the German company kicks off an upgrade campaign to the newest versions. As an incentive for the users to make the move, Avira is offering the upgrade free of charge. In order to proceed with updating to the most recent versions users have to […]
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.
Starting yesterday, we have initiated for all version 2012 users the upgrade campaign to version 2013. If you receive a message like the one in the picture below, just click on it and upgrade to your desired product. Do not forget that the upgrade is free of charge! If you have any questions, please […]
We have published information about the IE zero-day exploit which affected IE version 6 to 9 on all operating systems on which it is available. Not surprisingly, Microsoft announced today that they have a fix for this problem even before the cumulative patch on Friday, September 21st. If you have automatic updates enabled on our PC, you won’t need […]
It appears that another exploit is being actively used to install malware. This time, it appears that there is an exploit in Internet Explorer versions 6 to 9. This means, that all Windows operating systems until Windows 8 are affected. Microsoft has acknowledged in the Security Advisory (2757760) that there is a problem and that they are […]
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