If you are daft enough to opt-in to data collection

Avast and its subsidiary AVG are harvesting data collected from free antivirus programme if you opt into data collection.

Writes a $1.3 billion cheque

Avast has acquired rival AVG Technologies for $1.3 billion as it appears the security market is headed for a period of contraction.

He will sleep with the fishes

The language of the anti-virus industry has always been a little colourful, but Eugene Kaspersky went a little over the top with his godfather impersonation.

Buyers snuffling around