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AVG TuneUp: The All In One Solution To Keep Your PC In Top Shape?
Optimise your Windows PC, Mac or laptop with new AVG TuneUp. Even the newest, most powerful laptops and PCs can begin to experience slow-downs, battery drain, storage issues and performance bottlenecks in just a matter of months. But how do you improve your computer’s performance? It used to be that... Read more
AVG FREE and AVG Internet Security Unlimited 2017 Reviewed And Approved!
AVG FREE + AVG Internet Security Unlimited: The Online Security You Need For 2017 For 2017, AVG Internet Security-Unlimited has a raft of new features that make it easier than ever to protect all your hardware from infection and malware attacks, and protect your whole family with advanced full protection... Read more
AVG Releases New Products For 2017
Security software heavyweights AVG have revealed three releases for 2017 – AVG Internet Security-Unlimited; AVG AntiVirus FREE; and AVG PC TuneUp. Developed to cover all your online security, antivirus, anti-malware and device-optimisation needs, this trio from AVG have much to offer users. So what’s new for 2017? AVG Internet... Read more
Avast Buys Out Riva AVG For Reported $1.3 Billion
Prospective deal means Avast could become world’s largest antivirus company in the world. ‘We are in a rapidly changing industry, and this acquisition gives us the breadth and technological depth to be the security provider of choice for our current and future customers,’ said Avast CEO Vince Steckler in a blog... Read more
Forbes Asks Online Readers To Disable Ad Blockers Then Hands Out Malware
Ad blocking software usage in the US grew by 48% last year alone. Advertising is an everyday fact of life on the internet, but more and more users are using ad blocking software to evade seeing them at all. From the perspective of a web publisher, you can probably... Read more
AVG Vulnerability Could Have Allowed Hackers To Easily Steal Passwords
Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy has taken AVG developers to task over genuine security risks that could have allowed hackers to infiltrate users web browsers. We covered the story last week of how Ormandy discovered that AVG’s free Web TuneUp Chrome browser extension was a potential security threat, that... Read more
AVG Chrome Extension “Web TuneUp” Put 9 Million users at risk
The free Chrome browser extension, ‘Web TuneUp’ made and installed by Netherlands based AVG Antivirus has been unveiled as potentially security threat. Over 9 million AVG users were exposed to the bug. The recently discovered vulnerability may have allowed the personal data and browsing history of its users to be... Read more
Important Security Updates Released On FileHippo
It’s a mad, mad world out there, especially in the Wild West of the internet. New threats are being exposed every single day, and news of yet another data breach crops up constantly. And with the abundance of internet-supported devices and the availability of suspicious public wifi connections, it... Read more
Global Leader In Personal Privacy Solutions, Privax, Acquired By AVG
AVG recently announced the acquisition of a virtual private network provider (VPN) Privax, a leading global provider of desktop and mobile privacy services for consumers. The announcement was made public in blog posts by AVG and Privax. The reported selling price is $40 million with a potential $20 million... Read more
Worried About Security? Download AVG Free Edition
Security is on everyone’s lips these days and with good reason.  The amount of viruses and malware is an ever-increasing threat.  There are many applications that are available on the market, some at cost and some at no cost. But with so many to choose from, which application do... Read more