When I was her age I was getting the viruses... All sorts... Keyloggers, rootkits, trojans, malware, phising scams... Not analyzing them and cleaning them... That's pretty impressive. (Accidentally, I don't know... I just always ended up getting infected. Aha).Yes and no. She has a laptop but the general rule is she doesn't do any malware analysis on it and such, so she just uses it for games.
It's technically my laptop but she pretty much owns it
... I wish I could get a job at Avast. Even voluntary I'd be happy with. I would want to keep developing my apps and my Antivirus but if they let me join their Avast team and help finding and analyse malware, teach me things it would be amazing. I know it will however, never happen xDMy daughter, now officially a member of the Avast Team
As I'm oft to say, "Never is an awfully long time." Prerequisite obstacle I can think of.Call me mark... See what I did there... Kram backwards = my namekram.., you should pursue your desires however the odds may seem stacked.
..but, if you weren't to get a response from Avast right away, I just know that if any of us were to submit a CV even half as adorable as Lucy's we might hear something back!
*On a serious note, you should put yourself out there. Every good company needs good people!
- You must love the colour orange
- ..and there might be just one little (age 10)
*jealous *
That's brilliant!Call me mark... See what I did there... Kram backwards = my name
Anyway, yeah your right. I see what you mean.
You're Hired!! ..but,
for a single moment, I wondered if you could be my brother-in-law whom has the same name. ..but upon further thought, that's an impossibility since he stays up all night, and is sleeping now!Nice !
But, bad choice, Avast
She will be a super malware killer like you Cowpipe
We ran a couple of samples and of course, it was Lucy who beat me to identifying some strange behaviour in wireshark. She's so proud of herself, she's been impressing all her friends, telling them she's fighting viruses for AVAST and she has insisted I get her an AVAST T-Shirt so she can "wear the uniform" Off to the T-Shirt printers tomorrow it is
She got a talent at handing mouse to draw things like these, I'm really impressedShe drew it out, I scanned it in for her and then let her loose with the paint brush tool on GIMP on a semi-transparent setting
That's even better - she's better than me at GIMP...She drew it out, I scanned it in for her and then let her loose with the paint brush tool on GIMP on a semi-transparent setting
I only just noticed the rest of this thread, thank you all, it's really made me smile to read through
Just wanted to share this little blog post I spotted too:
https://blog.avast.com/2014/06/30/community-stories-10-year-old-lucy-sent-her-cv-to-avast/
I told Lucy she was now officially a member of the AVAST Team when she came back from school this morning. After she'd stopped smiling and caught a breath she was pestering me as ever to analyse some more viruses
She was too shy for a photo but she seems to have her heart set on writing her first virus analysis report and sending it to the AVAST Labs
So just wanted to say thank you to everyone here who's been so kind, and a special thank you to AVAST, who's terrifically kind gesture has made my little girl very, very happy
Didn't know she wants to be a antivirus when she grows up
We didn't have any crayons so I suggested we could "digitally paint" it instead, I showed her how to use the paint brush (change the colour, size, transparency etc) and away she went
