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Hacker

US Treasury branch confirms hack attack

A branch of the US Department of the Treasury has had to close a number of websites following hacking activity.

By Tom Brewster, 5 May 2010 at 14:38

Security/News

Infection

‘Funky’ Mumba botnet hits 55,000 systems

The Avalanche Group's Mumba botnet has stolen more than 60GB of personal data and infected 55,000 computers.

By Tom Brewster, 3 Aug 2010 at 15:34

Security/News

Five million AVG Free downloads in a week

The attraction of free security software sees millions of users downloading free versions from AVG.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 18 Jun 2008 at 15:37

Security/News

Anti-virus

Symantec and AVG upgrades ‘misleading’ customers

A Which? investigation says Symantec and AVG upgrade rules could mislead customers.

By Tom Brewster, 3 Dec 2010 at 17:19

Security/News

cyber crime

Cyber criminals have a 10 per cent success rate

The bad guys are managing to have their wicked way with one in 10 of our machines.

By Eric Doyle, 27 Jul 2010 at 10:30

Security/News

Could AVG start working on the Apple Mac platform?

Does AVG, well known for its free security software product, look to provide Apple anti-virus?

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 3 Jul 2009 at 15:06

Security/News

AVG buys Sana to avoid cloud-based security

The free anti-virus vendor has rejected the cloud route in favour of new behaviour-based security technology.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 13 Jan 2009 at 13:05

Cloud Security/News

AVG focuses on retail with Maplin partnership

The free security software vendor branches out in an attempt to get more businesses and consumers investing in its paid security software.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 9 Jan 2009 at 15:44

Security/News

AVG mistakes Adobe file for malware

AVG barely makes its apologies for a previous mistake when news comes that another file is mistaken for malware.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 18 Nov 2008 at 13:53

Security/News

AVG anti-virus stopped Windows XP from booting

Last weekend, some users had their Windows XP systems crippled after AVG anti-virus software deleted a crucial system file.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 12 Nov 2008 at 15:15

Antivirus/News

AVG adds behaviour detection in security upgrade

AVG has updated its free and paid-for editions, including extending behavioural tools in the latter.

By Darien Graham-Smith, 2 Mar 2009 at 18:42

Security/News

AVG solves fake traffic problem

After pressure from webmasters the antivirus company has implemented a fix for its ‘LinkScanner’, to solve the issue of ‘fake’ traffic...

By Matthew Sparkes, 7 Jul 2008 at 10:23

Networking/News

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