Microsoft Security Essentials is the latest Antivirus and Antispyware released by Microsoft which is free to use for lifetime. I have been using this Antivirus for quite some time now and am very pleased with its performance.
The definition update for this is released almost daily and to update to the latest signatures, it needs the [...]
There is no doubt that everyone needs an AntiVirus to protect his/her system from the spread of the viruses which are very common in today’s times.
What kind of AntiVirus are Fake?
Fake AntiVirus are a type of malicious programs that appears to be an AntiVirus. It infects our systems when we click on a malicious site [...]
Antivirus is a must for protecting the system against the threats and there are lots of companies that provide the trial versions of the AV. While continuing with the same product after the trial period depends on us, few people tend to uninstall the product.
Removing the Antivirus using the Windows’ Add/Remove program utility is the [...]
Anti Virus is a great protection tool to safeguard our computer and files against the virus but these are not 100% efficient in use and also they require periodic updating of the virus definitions.
Here is a free, simple yet powerful tool that can protect your files and folders especially the executable exe files against the [...]
We would like to know how many visitors of TS are Security Savvy. Being a geeky site that share all the views of the people and provides solutions to most of the computer problems, it would interest me to figure out how the visitors of TS are.
In today’s survey we just want to know how [...]
I am using Symantec Corporate Edition Antivirus for my computer, which is good for me (there may be better). I also keep it updated with the latest virus definition files. Recently I was required to install the same Antivirus to my friend’s computer.
I installed the Antivirus but the setup was bit old and contained old [...]
One of our regular visitor wanted to know this thing that what should he have in his computer so that there is the least risk of it malfunctioning. Well there is no specific answer to this question as it depends on one person to another.
The list below may be useful for some and not for [...]
Let me guess, you have some Anti Virus installed in the computer and are still getting the message balloon saying “Your Computer Might be at Risk. Click this balloon to fix the problem”. This thing occurs when you boot up the computer and more probably when you have installed Symantec Anti Virus.
It should be noted [...]
I got a virus! Yes I did get one yesterday. I wonder from where I got this but my system got infected with Boot.com virus that displayed a resycled folder and an autorun.inf file on my each drive and even my Anti Virus (Symantec) which I trusted so much failed to catch it. I feel [...]
This is a problem that happened to one of our viewers. His system got infected with a virus but his Anti Virus cleaned it successfully. But what was strange is that during the next startup his system showed an error message “C:\recycled\SVCHOST.exe not found”.
I came to know that this problem is mostly caused when scanned [...]
So let me guess you have infected your system and tried many solutions to clean it. There are many ways to clean the system and of course the final step is to Format the PC which no one of us wants to do.
After receiving a problem from a user, I think I should discuss what [...]
Strange but true, there are times when we decide to get rid of some virus or a worm by reformatting the system but even after formatting the PC we are shocked to see the virus back in our computers. This is what happened to my friend who formatted the PC just to get it cleaned [...]
