The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by wyndham » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast
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Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by slartibardfast0 » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

wish AV vendors would stop MiTM attacks on HTTPs

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by xan92 » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

Around 2003/04 was installing Avast/AVG on my friends desktops/PCs was a wonderful freeware. I started working as a system administrator around 2007 when I did the same on a few office machines, I had noticed how they became rogue, By infecting healthy machines with malware and prompting to buy paid version for removal, I am not sure if anyone remembers this thing with Avast ?

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Post by mac_was » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

'Baza wirusow zostala zaktualizowana' - in every Polish home 10 years ago.

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by thomasdd » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

Maybe just my point-of-view. But Czech-Slovak companies have strong influence in antivirus software. With avast.com / avg.com / eset.com

...or does every country in world have their own AV software (local)giants? I'am curious...

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by c16 » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

slartibardfast0 wrote: post #2

wish AV vendors would stop MiTM attacks on HTTPs

This. I lost a lot of respect when Firefox complained that something was wrong, and it turned out to be Avast doing a man in the middle attack to 'protect' me on https websites.

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by reportgunner » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

thomasdd wrote: post #5

Maybe just my point-of-view. But Czech-Slovak companies have strong influence in antivirus software. With avast.com / avg.com / eset.com ...or does every country in world have their own AV software (local)giants? I'am curious...

Great question! I'm a local and I don't know either..

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by bitL » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 2:45 PM UTC

xan92 wrote: post #3

Around 2003/04 was installing Avast/AVG on my friends desktops/PCs was a wonderful freeware. I started working as a system administrator around 2007 when I did the same on a few office machines, I had noticed how they became rogue, By infecting healthy machines with malware and prompting to buy paid version for removal, I am not sure if anyone remembers this thing with Avast ?

Never understood how they survived that. Now they seem to be dominating their country's tech landscape. Market ended up rewarding sociopathic behavior. Pretty terrible.

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by bitL » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

thomasdd wrote: post #5

Maybe just my point-of-view. But Czech-Slovak companies have strong influence in antivirus software. With avast.com / avg.com / eset.com ...or does every country in world have their own AV software (local)giants? I'am curious...

I think a few AV companies whose products I utilized in the past were from Romania as well (BitDefender?).

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 3:07 PM UTC

reportgunner wrote: post #7

thomasdd wrote: post #5

Maybe just my point-of-view. But Czech-Slovak companies have strong influence in antivirus software. With avast.com / avg.com / eset.com ...or does every country in world have their own AV software (local)giants? I'am curious...

Great question! I'm a local and I don't know either..

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