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Avira Premium Antivirus is Windows 8 certified
As previously announced, we continue to improve the compatibility with Windows 8 of our products. After the Free Antivirus certification, we are happy to inform you that Avira Antivirus Premium is the next Avira product which is Windows 8 certified. The certification of … Continue reading
Avira and the compatibility with Windows 8
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 … Continue reading
Malaysian Phishing in real-time
Since several weeks we see a higher amount of spam/phish Emails in Malaysia. Recently, our Virus Lab in Malaysia came across phishing mails in the Malay language impersonating the Hong Leong bank. Even if this phishing attack has only a local … Continue reading
Virus Bulletin Conference 2012
The VB2012 - the 22nd Virus Bulletin International Conference is taking place between 26-28 September 2012 in Dallas, Texas, United States. As every year, Avira is present there and we will blog every day about the most important presentations. This year’s keynote address … Continue reading
Last.fm and eHarmony passwords leaked on the web
Following the trend started by LinkedIn two days ago, the popular music website Last.fm and the dating website eHarmony have issued an alert to all customers asking them to change their password because of leaked passwords. Last.fm has issued the … Continue reading
New CAPTCHA method or just another likejacking scam?
In case you’ve seen this on Facebook, try to not click on it even if you understand French (it appears to be only in Franch) because it will take you on a road where you don’t want to be. But, … Continue reading
More Facebook scams
There are at least 3 other scams which currently spread very fast on Facebook, very similar to the one which we already analyzed. The first scam is reporting that Chuck Norris has died at 71 years, the second one is … Continue reading
Holiday phishing season is starting
As in previous years, we are used to see a peak in the phishing attacks starting at the beginning of December and ending in the middle of January. If beginning of December makes perfectly sense, you might have asked yourself why middle … Continue reading
Virus Bulletin Conference – Day 3
The third and last day of the VB 2011 Conference was as interesting as the other two, in both corporate and technical tracks. The technical track was dedicated to exploits, Java, packers, Flash analysis and others. All topics definitely interesting … Continue reading
Virus Bulletin Conference – Day 2
The programme of the second day of the VB conference was very mixed. In the corporate stream we have seen sessions about MacOSX Malware, Android Malware and various techniques to identify and analyze distributed attacks. In the technical stream there also … Continue reading