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The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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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 feel like the old soviet countries including russia now are all quite strong in the cybersecurity space. I've heard its because of a combination of their strong math/science education and poverty? I've always found it quite intrigueing

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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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...

The US has Microsoft.

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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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 feel like the old soviet countries including russia now are all quite strong in the cybersecurity space. I've heard its because of a combination of their strong math/science education and poverty? I've always found it quite intrigueing

I grew up in Eastern Europe and moved to Western Europe in my early 20s and the difference is that in the East, STEM was very popular for kids in high school and university as it offered access to engineering careers which were the most lucrative considering how poor the economy was in the 90s, helping kids of lower class background move upwards(just like in the US) and it would also open doors later in life to emigrate to the West.

Now in Western Europe, due to socialism and high standard of living, kids aren't that poor and tech salaries are not that much higher than any other desk job so they have no interest to study STEM as it's seen as stressful career path for boring lonely nerds and instead prefer to focus on social sciences, being wantrepreneurs or Instagram influencers.

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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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 ?

I have never heard this. Can you provide a link with more details?

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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post #16
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 ?

I have never heard this. Can you provide a link with more details?

This was my personal and honest experience with Avast. They were the first scareware pioneers, If you have used them as I did you would have noticed.

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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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...

The US has Microsoft.

Who bought Romanian antivirus company.

Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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post #9
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?).

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Re: The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast

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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...

Microsoft's own inbuilt Windows Defender is Romania's former RAV Antivirus which they bought in 2003.[1]

[1]https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/yongrhee/2019/02/21/wind...

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