The latest version of the immensely popular Angry Birds series, Angry Birds Space, has already seen fake imitations – after only being available since March this year. The infected version has been found to contain a Trojan, detected as “Andr/KongFu-L”. While the imitation appears to be fully functional, it is actually manipulating what is known as the “GingerBreak” exploit [...]
Last month, we reported on a fake AVG scam that was doing the rounds on Twitter, and this month, a new wave of spam has hit the social networking site – pushing advertisements for a free and “proven” anti-virus solution. Please be aware that the link included in such tweets is malicious and the anti-virus is fake! So [...]
Could your computer or networking equipment be one of more than 10,000 that are still affected by the “DNSChanger” malware from last year? Let me first explain what DNS is, and then explain this amazing situation – which has left the FBI holding the bag, and over 10,000 users in Australia and New Zealand potentially in [...]
At AVG (AU/NZ), we take our community’s protection seriously – so as well as providing you with great security software, we also want to keep you informed about the latest online threats and scams. We have become aware of a new mobile security threat, courtesy of our AVG Mobilation™ Research Team. The threat is a malicious application named [...]
As always, Twitter is a flurry of activity, with many people around the world talking about AVG and its products. However, it has been brought to our attention today that a scam exists, whereby tweets contain a link (hidden by a link-shortener) that encourages users to access a website made-up to look like the official AVG [...]
One of the most essential pieces of software that should be installed on every computer these days is undoubtedly anti-virus and anti-malware software. Not surprisingly, cybercriminals have worked out how to exploit our need for anti-virus software – by creating their own malicious and fake versions that we refer to as “Fake Anti-Virus” or “Fake [...]
The Internet – a vast superhighway of information, business opportunity, entertainment and vice. Most of us use it, but does anyone really stop to think how it works? The Internet is just “out there” in most people’s perception, and this can cause businesses real problems. Most of your employees will go online without stopping to [...]
Mobile computing is on the rise. Smaller, faster, easier – in many ways, this approach epitomises much of how we have come to regard technology in general over the past decade. The mobile phone or PDA is no longer an exclusive white collar toy, and the processing power of 4.3inches of touch-screen in our sweaty [...]
AVG (AU/NZ) would like to inform its customers and visitors of a new scam doing the rounds. In the coming days, you may receive an email, supposedly from Mozilla Firefox, advertising an upgrade to Firefox 8:
A recent Digitial Diaries study by AVG found that today’s children are reaching “digital adulthood” as young as 10 years old. The sheer level of information that is now at the fingertips of all members of our community is staggering, and for some of us (like my mum), it may feel as though we’re being [...]
