There is no doubt that the USB drives are the prime reason for the spread of the viruses and malware from one system to the other. Have you ever noticed that this spread is initiated by a file called Autorun.inf?
So that means if we can disable this autorun.inf file then our system would get protected [...]
If you have come across this process named NMIndexStoreSvr.exe lately and do not know what this process is for, then here are the details of it.
What is NMIndexStoreSvr.exe?
NMIndexStoreSvr.exe is part of Nero Scout that comes with Nero CD/DVD Burning 7. Nero Scout is a database program that catalogs all of the media files on your [...]
If you are bored up with the default Windows Task Manager and its simple functionalities then you can try a new and improved Task Manager called Security Task Manager.
Security Task Manager provides the users with lots of information apart from the usual process information. Security Task Manager shows comprehensible information about programs and processes running [...]
There are various different kinds of the malicious threats to the computer that remembering each of them is bit tedious. The threats include virus, malware, adware, Trojans but apart from these there is Scareware about which not everyone is aware of.
Scareware is a type of software that frightens you into downloading and purchasing certain rogue [...]
It has been observed that lots of sites are claiming to show the new movie of the Twilight series “New Moon” with just a click on their link, however it is not true as they in reality infects your system with a malware that comes along.
Here is what happens:
• The fans are tempted to view the [...]
These days lots of malware have been found to target the brand name of Facebook and are fooling the users. The malwares namely Bredolab, Zbot and Adware are making the users to install banking password stealing malware and adware on their systems.
The message of the email claims to arrive from “The Facebook Team”, but in [...]
The problem was reported by one of our readers that the Internet Explorer he worked upon automatically opens a porn site like fucketa.com. This is very embarrassing for him and also unsafe for the crucial data he has.
The problem is not only this as the browser opens up every 30 seconds. This is clearly a [...]
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 [...]
The virus called mwau.exe has been troubling one of our readers who wanted to know about its removal and other things.
What is mwau.exe?
Mwau.exe is an undesirable and malicious program that can be probably termed as a virus. It stands for Microsoft Windows Automatic Update but should be deleted from the system as soon as possible.
Behavior:
Mwau.exe [...]
Seeing the rising popularity of the social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook, it seems that the hackers have decided to attack these now.
We just came across about the malware attached in Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince Movie available on net and now there is another instance of this kind of attack.
Facebook have been [...]
It happens many times that we come across a file or a suspicious malware that gets locked to the system. Since the malware has locked itself, deleting it is not at all possible and we get some error message saying “The file is used by another program”.
From the makers of the very famous Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware [...]
There are good amount of tools available that can remove all the virus, spyware and malware for you but this tool called FreeFixer is a reliable one.
Being free does not mean that this tool FreeFixer is not effective; the FreeFixer is a general purpose removal tool that can remove all the potentially unwanted adware, spyware, [...]
