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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.
I worked at an ad network company for years (we basically put crappy add-ons on poeple's machines that generate search revenue). All of these AV companies basically extort money from crapware companies. if you pay them, you can get unblocked.
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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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.
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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 emigr…
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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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.
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
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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 emigr…
Not sure, what western european countries pays as much for a tech job as for any other desk job? Also i dont think it has something to do with skills, more like with criminals creating virii and thus developing and understanding of how security works.