Neowin News Feed for: Avast

AV-Comparatives, AV-TEST show how Defender, McAfee, Norton, AVG hog your Windows 11, 10 PCs

Sayan Sen — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:00:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender is found to be one of the worst performers in AV-Comparatives test suite which measured performance impact by anti-malware apps. AV-TEST also found similar results. Read more...

Microsoft Defender, Kaspersky, McAfee get worse while Avast, AVG shine in Windows web test

Sayan Sen — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:34:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender did really well in a Windows web malware test last time. This time around though, its performance was not the best. Other solutions like Kaspersky performed even worse. Read more...

Microsoft Defender, Avast, AVG turned against Windows to permanently delete files

Sayan Sen — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:36:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender, AVG, Avast, and more, were found vulnerable to a new zero-day security exploit through which harmless files, even system files, could be deleted using the anti-virus. Read more...

Avast launches Ransomware Shield to fight growing threats to businesses

Paul Hill — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:10:02 +0000

Avast has launched the Ransomware Shield for business users. It protects files and folders from being edited by unauthorized programs, which should protect them from ransomware programs. Read more...

UK's CMA provisionally clears NortonLifeLock's acquisition of Avast

Paul Hill — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:56:01 +0000

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally given the go ahead of the acquisition of Avast by NortonLifeLock. It said the merger won't give the firm a monopoly position. Read more...

Microsoft names and shames a perpetrator behind ZLoader botnet to deter others

Usama Jawad — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:44:01 +0000

Microsoft has publicly revealed the identity and location of a perpetrator behind ZLoader in order to deter others. The person had developed a ZLoader component that is used to distribute ransomware. Read more...

Microsoft Defender beats out several heavyweight rivals in the latest AV-TEST ranking

Sayan Sen — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:14:02 +0000

In the latest December 2021 AV-TEST anti-virus ranking for home users, Microsoft Windows Defender has outscored some of its rival anti-malware products, showing relative improvement since last time. Read more...

A host of anti-virus engines are flagging recent Dell printer drivers as unsafe

Abhay V — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:12:01 +0000

Printer driver files from Dell are being flagged as unsafe by anti-virus engines like Avast, McAfee, Fortinet, and more. Logs on Virus Total suggest that they are flagged as malware and trojans. Read more...

Microsoft is blocking Windows 10 1903 and 1909 upgrades for some antivirus users

Rich Woods — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:02:01 +0000

Microsoft has added a known issue for Windows 10 version 1903 and version 1909 to reflect that there's an upgrade block in place for users of Avast or AVG antvirus software. It needs an external fix. Read more...

avast! Free Antivirus 19.1.2360

Razvan Serea — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:36:01 +0000