Tag: avast
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Avast gets $100m investment boost
Growth equity firm invests in Czech firm Avast Software , the Czech anti-malware firm famous for its free avast! software, has announced that growth equity investor Summit Partners has invested $100 million for a minority stake in the company. The Czech security company has been in business since 1991, recently changing its name from Alwil…
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False positive problem hits avast! users
Human failure blamed for faulty update. A relatively small subsection of the massive user base for Alwil ‘s ever-popular avast! products were hit by a string of false positives last week, which in some cases saw vital Windows components quarantined or deleted. An update released in the very early hours of Thursday morning (00:15 GMT)…
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Microsoft steps into free AV market
Security Essentials release creates expected storm of words. Microsoft ‘s release of its free Security Essentials product this week sparked the expected barrage of views and opinions from all angles, from those hailing the release as the end of the AV industry to those slating the free product as inadequate and pointless. The new release…