antivirus

It looks like the original seller of these is no longer around, and the demand for them is still good, so I've started a new thread to sell what I have. Information This is for the older version of Malwarebytes which still recognizes the lifetime licenses. The program cannot be updated due to...

Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac brings the same robust protection from Windows Defender to the Mac platform. Microsoft has created a "cross-platform next-generation protection and endpoint detection and response coverage" heterogeneous solution that will help Microsoft reach its goal of securing...

I run malwarebytes (paid addition) and i also run spybot which i update/immunize/scan weekly. Spybot always finds some low grade stuff. I run the free version of spybot since i used the paid for 1 year and it was too intrusive and seemed to have problems auto updating such that i was spending...

best free AntiVirus? currently have avast but it bothers me to buy it every 5 minutes and its pissing me off. Ive kinda been slacking off on my computer skills the last few years so ive come to ask the experts! I either need a different program that doesnt nag you so much or figure out a way...

Researchers at Check Point Research have carried out an investigation into North Korea's homegrown antivirus software, SiliVaccine. The researchers got the software in 2014 from a suspicious email with a Dropbox link. Detailed analysis of SiliVaccine found that exact matches of large chunks of...

TorrentFreak is reporting that this week several Windows users that the uTorrent BitTorrent client was suddenly being flagged as a threat by Windows Defender as "Potentially Unwanted Software." The article goes on to state that other Antivirus software has been labeling uTorrent as a threat, and...

Iain Thomson at theregister discusses a report from Kaspersky that details how hackers could have stolen powerful and highly confidential software exploits from an NSA employee's Windows PC. According to the report, the NSA employee downloaded a backdoored MS Office key gen and Office ISO. He...

In a world of doing whatever it takes to do business with the U.S. Government, Gizmodo/AP reports, Kaspersky wants to prove his business doesn't operate maliciously- including turning over their source code for the government to vet.

As we reported over the weekend, some people are starting to suggest ditching your antivirus software. I'm not sure I agree, but with stories like these on The Register, it's not difficult to understand where they are coming from. Apparently a bad update from Webroot AV has resulted in client...

Alot of people seem to really hate Norton products, but I've used their AV software for a very long time and don't understand why people are so against it. It doesn't actually seem to do much ever and that to me is actually a good thing. Only very rarely I get a taskbar notification that it has...