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Symantec Flaw Puts Businesses At Risk
News A buffer overflow flaw in the Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine could let remote attackers run code on vulnerable machines, Symantec said in an advisory on Tuesday. The security hole lies in the Web-based administrative interface of the Symantec...
[October 6, 2005, 10:05]
Trend Micro Flaw Puts PCs In Firing Line
News The flaw in its antivirus scan engine could be used to trigger a buffer overflow using a corrupted UPX file, the software maker said in an advisory issued earlier this week. The flaw affects all of Trend Micro's products that use its scan engine...
[February 9, 2007, 8:00]
GaruYac Antivirus
Downloads The software is specially designed to scan, detect, delete and recover malwares, adwares, spywares, and trojans with an option of quick and full scan. Garuyac Antivirus is an anti-virus software designed for Windows98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista.
[May 24, 2008, 9:31]
Antivirus Software And Disk Defragmentation
White Papers After years of anecdotal data from Diskeeper customers about the reduction in virus-scan times attributed to defragmentation, Diskeeper Corporation decided to investigate. After testing on different system configurations, they found major...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Kriz Virus Makes Return Appearance
News Symantec and other antivirus software already scan for the virus in their stand-alone programs. Antivirus software maker Symantec Tuesday warned users to scan their computers before Christmas and released a free tool to scan for the virus and...
[December 21, 2000, 10:10]
SonicWall Puts Virus Protection At The Gateway
News The antivirus scanning feature is designed to scan for viruses on a packet-by-packet basis, rather than copy all packets and put them into files, which are then scanned. And most of the competitors can only scan files up to a certain size, or allow...
[November 8, 2004, 8:23]
Filseclab Twister AntiVirus V7
Downloads The unique Filseclab Dynamic Defense System (FDDS likes HIPS) can detect and prevent the most unknown Trojans and Viruses even without the latest virus definition and its Online Scan feature can easy to scan the suspicious online, usually your PC...
[January 3, 2008, 22:46]
New Magistr Worm At Large On The Net
News If you're just loading antivirus software for the first time, it's a good idea to let it scan your entire system. Often the antivirus program can be set to scan each time the computer is rebooted or on a periodic schedule.
[September 5, 2001, 9:56]
JPEG Exploit Could Beat Antivirus, Says Expert
News This means that it is not enough to scan at the desktop," said Hypponen. You have to scan at the gateway, but this will put a huge load on your bandwidth. According to director of antivirus research for F-Secure Mikko Hypponen, antivirus software...
[September 29, 2004, 14:10]
McAfee Excels Itself With Security Glitch
News The issue affected only desktop antivirus software, not McAfee's network-level products that scan e-mail, Telafici said. Also, the incorrect detection occurred only if the user ran a manual virus scan or during a scheduled scan, not during idle...
[March 13, 2006, 7:45]
Network Associates Releases Anti-spyware Tool
News Bryson Gordon, senior product manager for McAfee's security consumer division, said that most software solutions available today require people to manually scan their computers for infected files. After the scan is complete, they are presented with...
[January 23, 2004, 11:10]
McAfee Upgrade Hampers Lotus Notes
News As a workaround, the Santa Clara, California-based company suggests in its support article disabling the "scan all server databases" and "scan server mailboxes" features in its product. IBM in its support note lists another workaround: "Completely...
[January 23, 2007, 9:13]
Take Back Control Of IE
News When faced with an IE hijacking, you should first scan the computer for viruses, Trojans, adware, and spyware. Begin with a thorough scan Now that the system is virus free, it's time to scan for adware with a utility such as PestPatrol (which also...
[October 29, 2004, 14:14]
McAfee Antivirus Update Damages NT 4.0
News Network Associates builds its virus scanning utilities from three technologies: the product executable (in this case, version 4.0.2), the scan engine (4.1.20) and the antivirus definition, or DAT, library (4110).
[December 19, 2000, 14:35]
Are Your Users' PDAs Safe From Viruses?
News Users can scan any file they receive immediately with this fully resident virus scanner or launch PC-cillin and scan their entire device. Users can scan for viruses on their device at any time. If you support a corporate network, you likely have a...
[April 22, 2002, 9:21]
Symantec Announces Norton Updates
News The new versions are better in memory usage, boot time, scan speed, user interface launch speed and download speed, the company said. An improved system-scan feature now requires less processing power, for example, Symantec said.
[September 13, 2006, 9:30]
Antivirus Comparison
White Papers The PowerPoint presentation gives the results of an internal CERN evaluation of antivirus software, including: Norton Antivirus CE, MacAfee Virus scan, Panda Antivirus Platinum, Trend-Micro Office Scan CE.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary 30.11.2001
Blog Symantec has said that its antivirus software will not scan for the FBI's Magic Lantern keylogging software. This is a hidden program that the Feds can leave on your machine to report your keystrokes back to them, and since there's no conceptual...
[November 30, 2001, 17:00]
E-mail Antivirus Applications Tool Kit
White Papers Since mail servers are particularly vulnerable to viruses, you should use antivirus software to scan messages before they reach your mail servers. Protect your mail servers with antivirus applications.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
OSX 'at Risk From Attack'
Talkback Sit there and scan for Windows viruses like the antivirus software for Linux does? What's Symantec's Anti-Virus for Mac going to do? Wow, that makes me feel secure, knowing my UNIX system is safe from Windows virii.
[March 22, 2005, 1:17]
