Now that the Cyber Monday and Black Friday madness of buying at reduced prices is almost over, we expect to see the spam and scam campaigns related to these events. Every year, in the last week of November the two events bring into our inboxes a lot of spam and scams trying to make use […]
Security experts from Avira warn users that penny stocks spam messages are making the rounds once again in an attempt to convince recipients into investing with a certain company. The latest messages – entitled “It Should Resume Uptrend,” “It Becomes Our Latest Double,” “The best is yet to come” or “This is Ready to Explode” […]
How can we find out if we are really secure when we’re using online banking? There is no way to be really secure. However, there are ways to reduce the risk to a minimum acceptance level. Just ensure the following have been fulfilled: – If you use wireless to access the network, make sure that you use an encrypted […]
We all hoped about 5 years ago that this is over: after email-spam advertising penny-stocks, improved spam-campaigns using images, then trials to beat OCR detection with noise in and angle changes of the images, and finally closing with PDF-based penny-stock-spam. The latest version of this pest has titles like “The best is yet to come”, […]
We are very proud to announce that Avira received again the “VB100? award, offered by the Virus Bulletin magazine. The results of the tests performed with 36 products on Windows Server 2003 R2 were published on their website (registration required). With this award, Avira receives its 12 award in a row in the last two years and the stable ranking. Virus […]
Microsoft released Windows 8 on October 26, 2012. Historically, Microsoft has always had a certification process with different levels for the software running on its operating system. These levels are “Compatible with …” and “Designed for …”. In order to achieve these compatibility levels, there are many changes which need to be implemented by the software. […]
As previously announced, we continue to answer questions received from the readers of the PC.COM magazine. Are there any signs telling us if our computer has been hacked or compromised? Usually, if your computer is performing strangely, this is a good sign of being infected with malware. “Strange” can mean one or more of […]
Apple released in September 2012 the new iOS 6 together with the iPhone 5. We’ve seen quite a lot of advertisements about how good and great the iOS 6 is. No doubt, it is good, but not all new ”things” were advertised. For example, Apple didn’t say a word about the new feature called Identifier For Advertisers (IFA or […]
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. […]
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 […]
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