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Avira’s Free AV is celebrating 10 years

Quote from the Techblog: “Amazing! Avira’s free antivirus solution, Avira AntiVir Personal available at our www.FreeAV.com web site, is now getting 10 years old! For ten years, we added an additional security layer around companies by protecting the employees personal computers from malware infections for free. Amazon: Bestsellers Electronics and Photo The free version always […]

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Pardon for Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing

My friend John Graham-Cumming has started a petition to force the UK government to officially ask a post-mortem pardon to Alan Turing, the father of the modern computers and the breaker of the nazis’ Enigma code. Here is an interview about this topic. This post has been inspired by John’s post here.

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Avira has a Risk Level

http://techblog.avira.com/risk-level/en/ Avira Risk Level definitions There is an average level computed for the last 30 days for both malware and phishing. The alert level is computed like this: 1 Normal activity – less than -50 percent 2 Increased activity – between -50 and -25 percent 3 Suspicious activity – between -25 and 25 percent 4 […]