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avg.com
Company blog · avg.com/en/signalsecurity
avg.com is the company blog at avg.com, writing about security. Since 2009, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link AVG pages as sources or examples: the homepage, a reseller page, Signal articles on Mac ransomware and Facebook listening, and the download page. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Oh looks like they both install the AVG toolbar now, wow, I didn't know AVG had a program like that: http://www.avg.com/ww-en/reseller
Comment linking /ww-en/reseller
on “Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows”Submitted AGV Antivirus collects and retains all URLs visited for 36 months as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAnd ransomware and botnets too: https://www.avg.com/en/signal/mac-ransomware-remove-protect Fortunately iOS users don’t have those problems because of the security model that you are so quick to dismiss.
Comment linking /en/signal/mac-ransomware-remove-protect
on “A top-grossing scam on the App Store”Submitted AVG.com hacked as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMost likely a coincidence: https://www.avg.com/en/signal/facebook-listening-private-con... If it were true I feel confident that information would have leaked by now.
Comment linking /en/signal/facebook-listening-private-conversations
on “My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants”Submitted A Brief History of Computer Viruses (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlso bitdefender: http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/2013/ and AVG: http://www.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-arl although I am not sure if they are linux based.
Comment linking /us-en/download.prd-arl
on “Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible”Submitted We are serious about your privacy but we will share your data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnybody notice this is basically the AVG logo with the colors flipped around? See: http://www.avg.com/us-en/homepage
Comment linking /us-en/homepage
on “Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987”Submitted Avg.com (AVG anti-virus) DNS hacked as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's an interesting question so I did a quick Duck and turned up a few things. [1] Is APKPure safe to use? https://nordvpn.com/blog/is-apkpure-safe/ [2] "APKPure is not safe, distributes Trojans" (2021) https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/infected-apkpure/39273/ [3] Claims that APKPure is now owned by Blizzard Entertainment https://chimgadar.blogspot.com/ [4] Shows their 2014 seed round https://www.crunchbase.com/organ…
Comment linking /en/signal/is-apkpure-safe
on “Uses for an old Android device”Submitted Is It Safe to Log in with Facebook or Google? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - San Francisco / Bay Area / Remote + Travel Welcome We're Bitmatica, and we help our clients build web and mobile applications to ultimately grow revenue and make their organization more efficient. We're a group of Bay Area-based designers and engineers who love hard problems and big revenue impact. Our first priority is to deliver a compelling ROI with every web and mobile application we build, and we…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)”Submitted 3 Reasons to Never Use Fingerprint Locks on Phones (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI just get redirected to http://www.avg.com/gb-en/homepage which seems to be un-hacked. What happens on the US site?
Comment linking /gb-en/homepage
on “AVG.com hacked”Submitted AVG's new Privacy Policy will sell your browsing history to third parties as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AVG Antivirus and Security Software - AVG Security Toolbar as a story · 1 points
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