AVAR Conference is organized by the Association of anti Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR – http://www.aavar.org) every year in a different city in Asia region. This year the conference was held in Hangzhou, China. We sent two proposals for a presentation. And both of them were accepted – “Injecting custom payload into signed Windows executables” by Igor Glucksmann (AVAST) and “Your Every Click Counts (But All the Money Goes to Me)” by Lukas Hasik & Jan Sirmer. We spent a week in China at this conference at the beginning of November. Let me share a few photos and comments with you.
We reserved a little bit of time to recover from the jet-lag after more than 11 hours on plane to Shanghai. So we had some time to discover a bit of China.
Shanghai view from the Bund
Hangzhou is a very nice city, or at least I really enjoyed the West Lake. And there is no better way to enjoy it more (in China) than on a bike, of course.
West Lake, Hangzhou, China
Bike ride around the West Lake
Every presentation requires a lot of energy and concentration – it’s almost as challenging as climbing the Great Wall. However there are simpler ways to succeed – you can always visit a Buddhist temple.
Climbing the Great Wall
Prayers in a Buddhist temple
A few shots from the conference itself…
Keynote – Maik Morgenstern & Andreas Marx from AV-TEST
Igor Glucksmann from Avast during his presentation
Jan Sirmer, Igor Glucksmann, Lukas Hasik – all from Avast, of course 
After the conference we finally enjoyed the China as tourists before the long flight back to Prague.
walking, walking
lost in translation – it was really tricky to find yourself on a map with street names only in Chinese
enjoying less touristic areas of the town
real local breakfast!
dumplings and chopsticks
wanna a bite?
After the intensive days we sometimes felt as tired as the panda in the Beijing Zoo.
metro
sleeping panda in Beijing Zoo