Tag: AVG

We want to make one thing clear: we're not picking on Windows. But, the truth is, for a number of different reasons, keeping Microsoft's OS safe requires more thought and effort than other systems. Entailing more than hackers and viruses, being secure means protecting your privacy, securing your data, and ensuring that your account passwords are as robust as possible (and not written down on ...

Share There's a good chance that young children growing up in today's world will learn how to use an iPad before learning how to tie their shoes. That's the takeaway from a new study by online security firm AVG, which found that 58-percent of kids between the ages of 2 and 5 know how to play a "basic computer game," while a full 63-percent know how to turn a computer off and on. Most young ...

Users running both the 64-bit edition of Windows 7 and the free AVG 2011 antivirus suite may have had a little trouble booting their PCs after a recent update. The update, which AVG released yesterday, was causing a STOP error, thus preventing PCs from booting into Windows. It's since been pulled, but, if you've been stung by the bug, be prepared to break out that recovery disk. You can find ...

Not that you needed any further proof that no one is safe from a dedicated hacker, but here's yet another tale of Internet swindlers infecting a highly trusted site. Roger Thompson, a researcher at AVG, discovered on Monday that three sites belonging to the U.S. Treasury Department had been hacked, and were infecting visitors with malware. According to Thompson, the attackers embedded a simple ...

Yesterday, security software company AVG made available an update for the AVG 8 program that incorrectly identified an essential Windows file as a Trojan horse, CNET reports. Only impacting users of the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and Dutch versions of Windows XP, the update suggested that users delete the Windows system file user32.dll version 5.1.2600.3099 (an important system file). ...

AVG Free Anti-Virus What it does: The newly updated AVG Free is an Anti-Virus program that performs all the basic tasks you'd expect, without the slow downs associated with Norton and McAfee, or any of the exorbitant subscription fees. The new AVG version 8 also adds a host of new features, making it a much less bare-bones affair than the previous iteration. What we like about it: AVG ...