1. AntiVirus
(Forum)

2. Windows Vista - weird errors installing antivirus
(Forum/AntiVirus)

I am getting variuos errors when I try to install my antivirus program. They seem to be system errors but I do not understand what they are. Sometimes the computer freezes and I have to turn it off an

3. Re:System Restore
(Forum/AntiVirus)

Yes

4. Re:Comparison
(Forum/AntiVirus)

Our sponsors at antivirusdepot.com have a chart like that, although the URLs on that site appear to be changing. If it doesn't show up on the front page, click 'Comparison Chart' or something like tha

5. Re:Good Riddence
(Forum/AntiVirus)

Incidentally, aren't we supposed to have a Spam forum? Should we be talking about this in the AntiVirus forum? Don't worry about it right now, we're going to (re)open more forums shortly, but right

6. Re:Good Riddence
(Forum/AntiVirus)

...so spammed. Incidentally, aren't we supposed to have a Spam forum? Should we be talking about this in the AntiVirus forum?...

7. Multiple ClamAV Vulnerabilities
(News/CERT)

Clam AntiVirus has released ClamAV 0.93 to address multiple vulnerabilities. Two of these vulnerabilities are due to buffer overflow conditions in the handling of Upack executables in libclamav/pe.c a

8. Symantec Releases Security Advisory
(News/CERT)

Symantec has released a security advisory addressing multiple vulnerabilities in various Symantec AntiVirus products.  These vulnerabilities are due to errors in the way that Symantec Decomposer

9. Avoid
(Top/Antivirus)

There's plenty of good antivirus software out there, and there's plenty, that while not that great, will still protect you. There is, however, plenty that doesn't actually met what we woul

10. Settings
(Top/Antivirus)

Antivirus setup is sometimes a very confusing place. And often things are turned on that you simply do not need. Set the real-time scanner to not scan files on write, just on read, if that's an op

11. Scheduling
(Top/Antivirus)

Scheduling antivirus checks and updates is something that needs to be done daily. People that use their computer for business or other serious applications need to schedule three things to occur overn

12. Config
(Top/Antivirus)

Here's our recommendations before purchasing antivirus software, and during install. Installation Purchase new software instead of 'renewing'. There's almost no point in r

13. Prevention
(Top/Antivirus)

The best way to prevent viruses, worms, and trojan horses from getting in is to run antivirus software.Protection methods antivirus software uses: A disk scan mode, which you can run manua

14. Worms
(Top/Antivirus)

...rs. Often they'd be contests to see how small they could be, or how tricky they could avoid detection by antivirus. There were actual toolkits to produce viruses that would guide you through the p...

15. Viruses
(Top/Antivirus)

Computer viruses are pieces of code that attach themselves to other software. By analogy with biological viruses, they insert themselves into other programs, just like biological viruses to do to cell

16. Trojan Horses
(Top/Antivirus)

Trojan horses are software you have to manually run, but do something malicious. Some of them are just practical jokes handed out to friends, like one that appear to mess with your computer's vert

17. Other Behavior
(Top/Antispyware)

...ed, whatever else they're hiding will be visible. Rootkit detection is sometimes also included in antivirus software. However, as there are so many different things rookits have to remember...

18. Prevention
(Top/Antispyware)

...eystrokes or network traffic or analyzing everything written to disk. This is akin to heurisitic scanning in antivirus software, with the exception that it works fairly well, as little software has a ...

19. Security Center
(Top/Maintain)

... that to anything else. Just trust us. Virus Protection says OFF: It's possible you have turned your antivirus off. If so, obviously, turn it on. it's also possible that you have antivirus...