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Installing a near final, potentially buggy and unstable application on a real system with the possibility to provide feedback to developers directly. That’s beta testing. Well, it isn’t as easy as it sounds but if you are trying to summarize beta testing in one sentence you might end up with something like that. So … what […]
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In today’s connected world, governmental agencies spend tax money investigating new ways to breach software created to protect people, cyber-threats are getting more and more complex due to the diversity of devices, and users are less and less interested in protecting their privacy. Who’s the bad guy in this story and how can security vendors […]
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Researchers shows intercepting HTTPS traffic is nothing to sneeze at as it usually lowers user security. Makes you wonder why so many security companies do it. Avira does not.
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It’s well known that Ransomware often spreads via email. Most of them are phishing emails. Of late some of those emails are claiming in their subject line that they are an invoice from Avira. But that’s not all: they also come with a malicious attachment. Are those real Avira mails? No. Avira will never send […]
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Imagine yourself sitting on the couch, drinking an excellent coffee, and working on your favorite stuff, all while being surrounded by your close friends. That would be a great and productive work environment where you could clearly focus on your passion, right? Even Oprah once said: “The biggest adventure you can take is to live […]
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Avira Scout has been launched for the public, combining our security expertise with the Chromium code to give users a free browser that slashes the risks from malware, malvertising, and obtrusive trackers. Scout provides multiple layers of security and privacy without interrupting the user experience. We’ve integrated together a selection of best-in-class security and privacy […]
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Today is the day: Nintendo’s latest console has been released, the Nintendo Switch. Since there are quite a few gamers in our Avira offices, some of whom were crazy enough to actually get the console immediately, we thought it might be nice to share the joy and give you a quick first impression as we […]
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Just imagine the following scenario: Your birthday is around the corner and you’ve planned a big party – including lots of foods and drinks. So you go shopping and gather everything you think you need and it’s fun. Until you get out of the store and have to carry everything home somehow. Since you don’t […]
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What is Autopilot and where can I find it? Avira Autopilot is a browser extension exclusively for the Avira Scout browser. You can download Scout from here. Autopilot includes all the functions of the popular Avira Browser Safety (ABS) extension. Once you have downloaded, installed, and started Scout, you will see a green icon (see […]
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Over the course of the last six months, Cloudflare bled a lot of sensitive data. The reason? A bug in its HTML-Parser that in the end impacted millions of websites. Beside other things, they offer DDoS protection and a CDN service. Due to the massiv amount of affected websites its a rather important issue and it’s […]
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