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Venus And Mars On Social Media: Who’s Better At Protecting Their Online Privacy?

The ladies are onto something: keeping your private life private is a smart move We’ve been chatting in the AVG (AU/NZ) office about this recent US study, which found that women tend to take their...

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Control Your Online Privacy With AVG’s New ‘Do Not Track’ Feature

Since 1991, AVG has been at the vanguard of consumer protection. We’ve been working to protect you and your family from computerised security risks well before the online community had even heard of...

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Not All Fun And Games: Protect Your Online Privacy By Cleaning Up Invasive...

Increasing concerns about online privacy have forced social media app developers to be more transparent about which information on your profile they can access. For most of us, the days of accepting...

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What Is Adware?

At AVG (AU/NZ), we take our community’s protection seriously – so as well as providing you with great security software, we also want to keep you informed about the latest online threats and scams....

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To BCC: Or CC: – That Is The Question!

Like everyone, I’m a regular user of email and love a good joke, story or funny pic to brighten my day via email. I have many sources of these funnies and I have even more of these sources that I send...

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What Are Tracking Cookies?

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a tracking cookie and those choc chip delights in your pantry? AVG Security Advisor, Michael McKinnon explains what tracking cookies are and how...

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Privacy Fix: Disable Facebook’s Facial Recognition

Pictures are a core component of the Facebook experience. Most of the time, you’re either posting pictures or looking at pictures. One fun feature of Facebook is that you can be tagged in a photo,...

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So You Fell For A Facebook Scam… Here’s What To Do Next

If you’re on Facebook, you’ll be well aware that the number of scams that exist on the social network are copious to say the least. And although we may do our very best to stay alert to, and avoid, the...

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How To Clean Out Your YouTube Watch History For Better Online Privacy

Do you realise that YouTube keeps a history of all the videos you view? If you didn’t, we’ve got some news for you: it does – and the history includes both what you view on the site itself, and the...

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6 LinkedIn Privacy Changes You Need To Make… Right Now.

Just like any other social networking site, LinkedIn comes with its fair share of online privacy concerns – and they’re often pretty easy to miss. While the site is about professional connections and...

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Fixing Your Online Privacy – With PrivacyFix

One of the things that we’re very passionate about at AVG is giving everyone the ability to manage and control their own privacy online. As part of that commitment, AVG recently acquired a fantastic...

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Use An Android™ Device? Check Your Google Settings For Better Online Privacy

Android™ device users, this one’s for you. If you haven’t already become acquainted with the Google Settings app on your phone or tablet, we’d like to introduce you now… No, it’s not something you’ll...

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Facebook Privacy Tip: Clear Out Your Search History

You may have recently read or heard about the Facebook “Graph Search” function, which is part of Facebook’s efforts to make all of its content easier for you to search. It basically means it’s now a...

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Get With The Crowd: AVG’s New Facebook Privacy App – AVG CrowdControl™

With over 1.15 billion users, Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking site. The sheer scale of it means that it’s incredibly easy to make new friends, connect with old ones and chat with...

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