Posts Tagged ‘Spyware’

Can You Run Two Antivirus Software Programs on a Single Computer? Antivirus Programs are like sniffer dogs on the prowl. They keep on looking for suspicious activities and take appropriate actions as and when find anything wrong. They generally are memory resident and provide you real time protection based upon their effectiveness and efficiency. But many of the antivirus programs clash with the functioning of other antivirus ...

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Behavior Based Detection of Malware Files and Processes Most of the real time PC security software available today are signature based. They depend upon identification of a malware, analysis of its signature, updation of the database of the security software vendor and then download of the updated signature files by the end user. This complete cycle ...

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USB Ports offer a great convenience to the computer users. In the unlikely case somebody wants to know more about USB... Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to connect devices to a host computer. USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a single standardized interface socket and to improve plug and play capabilities by allowing hot swapping; that is, ...

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Malware Infections Through AutoRun Files AutoRun, a feature of Windows Explorer (actually of the shell32 dll) introduced in Windows 95, enables media and devices to launch programs by use of commands listed in a file called autorun.inf, stored in the root directory of the medium. This feature was introduced in Windows way back during the development of Windows 95 and has been continuing ...

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Security Products from top Security Software vendors like Symantec and CA failed to clear the critical PC Security tests VB100, performed by the independent security analyst Virus Bulletin. This test is performed every month from the product submitted by different vendors for benchmarking their products against industry requirements. This month VB's test team put 35 products through ...

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Booting an infected PC externally with a bootable virus cleaner CD is always a wise option when you are thinking of a heavily infected PC. Today's intelligent malware often take control of the system as soon as they get entry into your system and try every trick in the book to make their detection difficult. In this process they often paralyze the defense of your computer ...

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Problems of Conventional Antivirus Software Today's popular security software and antivirus applications have a reactive approach. They act of post-event basis. First a new malware or virus is identified, then its signature files are included in the database of that security software, then the end-user is expected to download the signature files and software updates and after that only the user can feel protected against that ...

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Virus Removal from an already infected computer is a complex process. Today's malware and viruses are intelligent enough and they take control of your entire system during the boot phase so as to hide themselves. It is best to attempt for the virus removal from your system, when these malware are lying in dormant condition. Booting your infected computer with the help of a bootable virus ...

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Using a Bootable Antitivirus Rescue CD Image File to Clean Infected Computers In this series of posts, we have been reviewing several Antivirus Rescue Disk to be used as Recovery Tools for those computers, which have become so much infected that it is not even possible to boot them or use them for any meaningful purpose. We have shown, how the use of a bootable virus ...

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What is a Antivirus Rescue CD Antivirus Rescue CDs are specially burnt CD Disks, meant for the removal of malware and viruses from a system, which has gone so bad due to virus infections that it is not in a position to even boot up itself. These bootable CD Disks have a light weight version ...

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