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How to disable advertisers tracking in iOS 6

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 […]

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Dear reader, who are you?

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. […]

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Avira is now in the Facebook AV Marketplace

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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Security 101: September 2012

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 […]

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Facebook myths and fakes

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 […]

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How to check if your DNS Server was hacked

Post initially published in Avira Techblog. You must have heard already about the already “famous” malware DNSChanger which manipulates the DNS settings of the computer in order to silently direct the users to malicious websites. FBI and others took action against this malware and in November 2011 have managed to break the botnet. According to FBI, […]

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Improve your Security #3: Online Protection

It is usually said that those who are behind a hardware router are protected from any danger. This is true in regard to the connections that come from outside but it is not true for the dangers which come from inside the local network. We must not forget that most of threats are landing on […]

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Improve your Security #1: Complex passwords aren’t always better

I have published the first article in this series in the Avira Techblog here :http://techblog.avira.com/2011/01/31/improve-your-security-1-complex-passwords-arent-always-better And, as a confirmation of what I wrote, I found this article on CIO Magazine: Apple and Google will kill password If I could only offer them a hand 🙂 Actually, I could do something in this direction by creating […]

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Sidejacking and Wi-Fi security

Avira – TechBlog : Sidejacking and Wi-Fi security All started with this article written by Byron Acohido from USA Today: http://lastwatchdog.com/firesheep-wi-fi-eavesdropper-works-mcdonalds-starbucks/ Then I wrote the article in the Techblog based on the feedback I provided to Byron.