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 [...]
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 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 [...]
One of our readers was facing problems due to the virus named as mIRC which is also known as IRC-Worm.Mircup, IRC/DeathTech, WIN.IRC.Virus and Trojan:IRCDeath.
The Trojan operates mostly upon IRC (Internet Relay Chat) if that is installed in the system. This Trojan is designed to update the mIRC version and looks like a harmless and useful [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Autorun.inf is the popular file created by the viruses in the USB Flash drives which is used by them to spread across different storage media.
It is the first file that gets created in the pen drives as soon as the drive is inserted in the system having viruses. Thus it is for sure that if [...]
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 [...]
As we all know, most of the computer problems are caused by computer viruses it is the Operating System that suffers a lot after that.
Even if you have removed the virus from the system, it would have already done so many problems in your system that you wish to format it. While in most of [...]
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 was reported by one of our readers and surprisingly this virus spreads under the names of songs.exe, khatarnak.exe and pictures.exe apart from others.
Steps to remove this virus:
1. Turn off the System Restore.
2. Boot in the Safe mode.
3. Go to Add/Remove Programs and remove any programs referencing “W32/SillyFDC,” “Worm.IM.Sohanad” or “Khatarnak.exe (if any)
4. Run [...]
If you have come across pen drive viruses then you must have seen this file called Autorun.inf. This is a file that stores the instructions to be carried when you double click your USB drive which in turn leads to the execution of the virus stored there.
However you can prevent the most of the computer [...]
