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 [...]
There are so many types of computer viruses in this world that removing them and finding a specific solution for each of them is a big ask. One such virus that screwed me is regsvr.exe classified as a W32.Imaut worm.
It has become a daily routine that when I plug my pen drive in my college [...]
My Antivirus (Symantec) and I are good at finding any virus or any suspicious file and removing it successfully. I am able to remove any virus from the system or a pen drive without any tool and have been doing it for a long time now but there are several files that we feel suspicious [...]
This must have happened to each of us many times that when we click the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the system tray to remove hardware, we get an error message saying “The device ‘Generic Volume’ cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later”.
The only reason for this problem is that the [...]
