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John McAffee releases instructional video on how to uninstall McAffee antivirus software, probably NSFW

8 hours, 44 mins ago

John McAffee releases weird video to teach us how to uninstall the software he founded

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Mac-specific Trojan discovered, injects ads into webpages

Mar 21, 2013 4:33 pm

Trojan discovered on Mac devices that injects ads into webpages

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avast! antivirus releases version 8

Feb 28, 2013 11:31 pm

avast! antivirus releases the latest version of their award-winning antivirus software

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Avast! antivirus pushes out beta of version 8, looking towards end of February release

Feb 15, 2013 11:02 pm

avast! releases version 8 beta 3, looking towards end of February for final release

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John McAfee deported to the USA from Guatemala

Dec 13, 2012 1:07 am

John McAfee deported to the United States by Guatemalan officials

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Study says people believe Windows 8 to be safer, not big enough deal to upgrade

Oct 26, 2012 1:26 pm

Avast survey found that many people do believe Microsoft has improved Windows' security

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"miniFlame" virus has been discovered by Kaspersky Labs, designed for cyber espionage

Oct 15, 2012 5:27 pm

Kaspersky Labs discovers miniFlame, previously thought to be a Flame module

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FTC slaps a $160M fine onto Scareware creators who scared users into buying fake anti-virus software

Oct 2, 2012 11:30 pm

FTC slaps a fine onto scareware peddlers who scare users into spending money on fake antivirus

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Google acquires online virus scanner VirusTotal for undisclosed amount

Sep 7, 2012 8:33 pm

Google acquires long-time partner VirusTotal, an online file scanner, for an undisclosed amount

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Cybercrime costs customers nearly $110 billion in 2011

Sep 7, 2012 6:28 am

Symantec says that cybercrime in 2011 cost consumers $110 billion

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New malware out is targeting OS X, Linux and Windows at the same time

Jul 16, 2012 11:21 am

Windows, OS X and Linux are being targeted simultaneously from new malware

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Spam being sent from a botnet composed of Android devices

Jul 4, 2012 9:06 pm

Spam is now coming from a botnet that lives on Android devices in developing countries

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avast! anti-virus headquarters tour in Prague, Czech Republic

Jul 2, 2012 1:32 pm

avast! anti-virus invited TweakTown to come out and take a look. Check out what we learned!

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Apple changes their website, doesn't state OS X is "virus-proof" anymore

Jun 27, 2012 3:27 am

Apple's website used to state OS X didn't "get PC viruses", but has since changed it to "it's built

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Espionage virus sent blueprints to China

Jun 21, 2012 8:28 pm

A virus has been stealing blueprints from Peruvian companies

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Iran is the target of the U.S. and Israel-made Flame virus, according to sources

Jun 21, 2012 10:24 am

Flame, a virus like Stuxnet, targetting Iranian oil refineries, made by the U.S. and Israel

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Google to warn the 500,000+ users infected with DNS Changer malware

May 23, 2012 2:02 pm

Google to warn users if they are infected with the DNS Changer malware.

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Download of the Day: avast! Free Antivirus for Mac

May 16, 2012 11:29 am

avast! Free Antivirus for Mac now contains the same light, award-winning, certified, and highly accl

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Download of the Day: Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ 10.1.211.3382

May 10, 2012 12:19 pm

Ad-Aware gives you comprehensive malware protection.

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Symantec Report Reveals 81 Percent Increase in Malicious Attacks in 2011

May 1, 2012 6:29 am

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avast! Free Antivirus for Mac is now available

Apr 30, 2012 4:34 pm

avast! Free Antivirus for Mac is now available for download.

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Thecus® and McAfee Partner to Launch NAS Device with McAfee Technology

Apr 18, 2012 5:41 am

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A new Mac OSX Trojan exploits Word, not Java

Apr 16, 2012 7:33 pm

A new Mac Trojan has shown up in the wild. Update MS Office software to be safe.

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Flashback Removal Tool hits the web, find out of your Mac is infected

Apr 12, 2012 2:09 am

F-Secure releases F-Secure Flashback Removal Tool, find out if your Mac is infected, and if so, fix

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Apple, Nokia and RIM supply backdoors for government intercept, according to hacked memo

Jan 10, 2012 12:39 am

Hacked memo leads us to believe Apple, Nokia and RIM supply backdoors for government spying

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