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  • Dec 8, 2015

    AMSTERDAM – December 8, 2015 – Despite its high-profile data breach and very public fallout this summer, the controversial dating app Ashley Madison is bouncing back to pre-hack user numbers,...

  • Nov 3, 2015
    Unprotected Smartphones and Unlocked Banking Apps -- plus Weak Password Requirements from American Web Sites -- Contribute to Lost Privacy

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 3, 2015 – The majority (98%) of consumers in the U.S.* claim to create safe passwords, but Avast research shows only 6% actually do. Avast, maker of the world’s...

  • Oct 28, 2015
    Avast “Lost” and Tracked 20 Phones In the U.S. to Find Out Where They Went

    Redwood City, California, Oct. 28, 2015 – Avast Software, maker of the world’s most-trusted PC and mobile security, today revealed the results of their experiment to lose and track twenty...

  • Oct 20, 2015

    AMSTERDAM – October 20, 2015 – Although its pictures and videos are gone in an instant, its effect on your smartphone lingers, as Snapchat the image-sharing app has been crowned as the number...

  • Aug 30, 2015

    Redwood City, Calif. August 31, 2015 – Avast Software, maker of the world’s most trusted PC and mobile security, is creating a kernel-level mobile security solution. Avast is working with...

  • Aug 19, 2015

    Redwood City, California, August 19, 2015 – Avast Software, maker of the world’s most trusted PC and mobile security, today announced that ASUS, the world’s third largest consumer notebook...

  • Jul 8, 2015

    Redwood City, California, July 8, 2015 – Avast Software, maker of the most-trusted security in the world, today announced the acquisition of Remotium, a leader in virtual enterprise mobility....

  • Jul 7, 2015
    Free Utility Eliminates Annoying Toolbars such as Ask and Conduit and Restores Hijacked Search

    Redwood City, Calif., July 7, 2015 – Avast Software, maker of the most trusted mobile and PC security in the world, announced today that Avast’s patent-pending technology, Avast Browser...

  • Jun 24, 2015

    AMSTERDAM – June 24, 2015 – Mobile phones are gaining an increasing share in the battle for parental attention, with a third of children, surveyed for a recent study, saying their parents...

  • Jun 2, 2015
    We've just completed our third AVG Android App Performance report, examining which are the apps that impact the storage, data and performance of Android devices. Each report takes anonymous data from one million AVG users and looks at how their apps and app usage affect their device.

    The following infographic details our findings in the first three months of 2015. On a typical business or vacation day, my phone barely makes it through the day: A bit of Googling here, a bit of...