Over the years, there have been so many Internet hoaxes that it has made the act of spreading helpful and cautionary advice to fellow users quite difficult. However, when it comes to Twitter direct message “spam”, this is something that can be acted on. Twitter is great for being in the “now”, and keeping up [...]
Mother’s Day is here again! Being ritually unable to choose between a bouquet of flowers and bottle of red wine for my mother, I thought this year I’d go for something a little more technological, only to find that she was already miles ahead of me (I don’t even know or care what a T-Hub [...]
Pinterest has become the most exciting new social networking site over the last few months. It’s perfect for the visually inclined, allowing users to “pin” images to their themed boards and share them with other users. Even the AVG (AU/NZ) Team has jumped on board! People are using the site to do everything from [...]
Are you on Facebook? Of course you are – it’s the most popular social networking site in the world for people under 20. And fair enough, too, since it helps you stay in touch with friends, share photos and organise events. That said, Facebook has led to some pretty dark situations for some young people out [...]
Increasing concerns about online privacy have forced social media app developers to be more transparent about which information on your profile they can access. For most of us, the days of accepting any old invitation to farm crops or hunt zombies via Facebook are over, partly because we’re more aware of the online privacy pitfalls, [...]
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 [...]
The fifth instalment of the AVG Digital Diaries study, “Digital Coming of Age“, reveals some really interesting new stats about how today’s parents perceive their teens’ online activity. One of the most surprising findings from the research is that 44% of parents keep tabs on their teens by accessing their Facebook account without their consent. This brings us to [...]
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 [...]
We’ve been chatting in the AVG (AU/NZ) office about this recent US study, which found that women tend to take their social media privacy more seriously than men do. The survey, by The Pew Internet & American Life Project, found that 67% of women with a social media profile restrict their settings to friends-only, compared [...]
One of the ways we sometimes see criminals making money is by taking advantage of legitimate advertising networks and fraudulently altering promotional collateral, including competition entry forms – often from large and otherwise trusted brand names. The method that makes this type of fraud possible is a commercial Internet marketing arrangement known as “Cost per [...]
