Avast pulls plug on insecure JavaScript engine in its security software suite
Code interpreter ran with admin-level access, not sand-boxed, potentially open to remote-code execution
13 Mar 2020
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Avast's AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping
HTTPS traffic could be intercepted, manipulated, thanks to sloppy proxy
10 Mar 2020
Difficult season: Antivirus-flinger Avast decides to 'wind down' Jumpshot
'Hundreds' of staffers in marketing analytics subsidiary to be hit
30 Jan 2020
Mozilla locks nosy Avast, AVG extensions out of Firefox store amid row over web privacy
Add-ons accused of slurping every URL netizens visit
04 Dec 2019
Avast lobs intruders into the 'Abiss': Miscreants tried to tamper with CCleaner after sneaking into network via VPN
Software used by millions not compromised this time, says biz
21 Oct 2019
Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos
It's 2019 and, like, duh, insecurity comes as standard
05 Sep 2019
Fresh stalkerware crop pops up on Google's Android Play Store, swiftly yanked offline
130,000 have already downloaded creepware
18 Jul 2019
Merry Xmas, fellow code nerds: Avast open-sources decompiler
RetDec will turn binaries into something more legible
15 Dec 2017
Avast urges devs to secure toolchains after hacked build box led to CCleaner disaster
VB2017 Timeline of compromise goes back to April
06 Oct 2017
CCleaner targeted top tech companies in attempt to lift IP
Infected Avast tool's payload went after the likes of Microsoft, Intel and Cisco, hit 20 targets
21 Sep 2017
Downloaded CCleaner lately? Oo, awks... it was stuffed with malware
OK, OK, well the 2.27 million victims were not Reg readers
18 Sep 2017
Avast blocks the entire internet – again
Updated Now that's cast-iron antivirus
11 May 2017
Avast woos AVG shareholders with $1.3bn buyout offer
Merger is to corner market rather than snaffle rival's tech
07 Jul 2016
F*cking DLL! Avast false positive trashes Windows code libraries
Avast there indeed, matey, wail admins as rogue guard dog savages their jugular
07 May 2015
Avast there: MEELLIONS of Androiders scuttled by 'adware' game app
'Software flung naughty adverts at screens'
03 Feb 2015
Home Wi-Fi security's just as good as '90s PC security! Wait, what?
'Fess up: half of you lot haven't changed your default creds
08 Dec 2014
You stupid BRICK! PCs running Avast AV can't handle Windows fixes
Fix issued, fingers pointed, forums in flames
24 Nov 2014
That 'wiped' Android phone you bought is stuffed with NAKED SELFIES – possibly
Infosec bods sound alarm after copping eyefuls of nudie pics
09 Jul 2014
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