I would like to take a moment to let you know why our company, Advantage Micro Corporation, had to choose avast! over other anti-virus products like AVG, McAfee, Norton and Symantec – products that we had been selling for 20 years. During February 2002, we had over 100 computers come into our office for service. Our clients reported that their computers were too slow to use. Our usual virus scans with existing antivirus software were not finding any infections in these machines. However, further investigation found that each system had multiple Trojan “infections.” Our technicians came to the conclusion that virtually all...
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Facebook’s hidden settings exposed!
I logged into Facebook yesterday, and up popped a message ” You have sent to many “friend requests” to people you do not know! WOW, I never send friend requests, ever! How the hell? After some research, I found “friend request settings” and it...
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Managing avast Endpoint Protection Suite Plus using the Small Office Administration console (SOA)
This article is the 2nd in a series that were written by Che Johnson (Avast Software Technical Support) and J.R. Guthrie (avast Sales and Support Specialist from Advantage Micro Corporation). We spent...
Managing avast Endpoint Protection Suite using the Small Office Administration console (SOA)
Che Johnson (Avast Software Technical Support) and J.R. Guthrie (avast Sales and Support Specialist from Advantage Micro Corporation) spent over a year writing this series of “Managing avast Endpoint Protection” documents to make installations...
How to do a clean install of avast Pro using the avast removal tool!
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