AVG warns of attacks on Facebook social network
AVG has warned that Facebook social network is being used by scammers to target users with spywares.
Fake profile pages are being made with similar data but links to harmful content.
A company blog post stated: “We’re seeing rather a lot of these, all from different profiles, [...]

Microsoft’s free anti-virus is finally out
Microsoft has finally launched their free anti-virus product named Microsoft Security Essentials.
This product had been in beta testing for several months now.
The company is providing this application as a free download for users on Windows XP, Windows Vista and of course Windows 7.
This means that millions of [...]

AVG users had temporary issues with Apple iTunes
AVG has a free antivirus product which is used by millions of computer users around the world.
The company confirmed that one of the recent updates released for AVG had a problem which labelled Apple iTunes files as a Trojan named Small.BOG.
The users were then instructed to quarantine [...]

AVG 8 Invalid Update Control CTF File Problem
If you are using the AVG 8 Free edition and noticing an error related to Invalid Update Control CTF File, you need to perform some steps manually to resume the auto update feature.
Find the location of the folder where AVG is storing the updates. On our Vista [...]

AVG offering free upgrades to users affected by recent user32.dll problem
AVG was recently in news for releasing an update which labeled a genuine Windows system file as a Trojan.
If the user went ahead to delete the file, the system becomes unreliable. In some cases, users had to reinstall their operating system to get back online.
AVG [...]

AVG 8 update messes up Windows XP systems!
AVG has yet another PR disaster in their hands.
One of the recent updates issued by the company marked an important Windows system file as a harmful file.
It advised the users to delete the file.
The file if deleted caused stability problems on the Windows XP machines.
The company said [...]

AVG fixes bug in LinkScanner component of their Anti-Virus product
Security software maker AVG has now made available patches for the LinkScanner component of their anti-virus products.
This component is designed to check for bad links on the web while the user checked out the search engines.
It ended up accessing all the pages listed on the search [...]