Tag: ANTI-VIRUS

Symptoms: There are a range of telltale signs that your PC has been infiltrated by a binary ne'er-do-well, but, counterintuitively, the worst case scenario is when there are no obvious symptoms at all. For starters, you may have an infection if your PC or Internet throughput has become consistently sluggish, and a restart doesn't cure it. Frequent, random pop-up windows with ads or system ...

Microsoft's new Security Essentials package departed from its beta status yesterday and is now available for free download, in its full-blown form, to anyone in need of some malware protection. Security Essentials protects against viruses, trojans, spyware, and other such cyber-nastiness. The free download is certified as Windows 7 compatible (as one would expect) and is kept up-to-date via ...

What is Conficker? Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is the latest super virus to spread around the Internet and has security experts in a panic. When last we checked, about a week ago, Conficker had already spread to 9 million PCs, with little sign of slowing. Now it has infected at least 10 million PCs and experts believe there may be up to 350 million vulnerable computers out there. ...

Apple caused a bit of a stir among Macintosh users this week when it seemed to say users would be wise to install "multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent." But wait, aren't Macs supposed to be virus free and virus defeating right out of the box? It's the Windows users who have to be constantly vigilant against viruses, spyware, Trojan ...

Surely you've seen the Mac vs. PC commercials in which Apple loves to make a fool of the bungling PC, played by John Hodgman. In one commercial, embedded after the break, Apple shows a sick PC, coughing and saying he's been infected by some virus. The noble Mac offers a hankie and says he's immune. However, showing what little truth there is in advertising, Apple's not nearly as confident when ...

In a computer lab at Sonoma State University, George Ledin is teaching his students how to beat the expensive anti-virus packages from top security software manufacturers like Symantec and McAfee. Students are learning to best these pricey products on closed networks where they can't harm other computers or the Internet. But that hasn't stopped security companies from condemning Ledin's work. ...

Warning -- a new virus is making its way around the Internet. The virus, dubbed Mebroot, lodges it self in the Master Boot Record (MBR), a part of the hard drive responsible for loading the operating system, where it is out of the reach of most anti-virus software. The virus itself doesn't actually harm a PC, but it does load other software on the computer, including key-loggers that are ...