1. Cisco Releases Security Advisory
(News/CERT)

...w an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. An unspecified error that occurs during vulnerability scanning against  TCP port 443 may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condi...

2. ClamAV PE Scanning Vulnerability
(News/CERT)

US-CERT is aware of a report of a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting ClamAV. This heap-based buffer overflow vulnerablity may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system.US-

3. Fraudulent Mac OS Security Tool Circulating
(News/CERT)

US-CERT is aware of reports of a rogue security scanning tool circulating for Apple Mac OS, known as MacSweeper. The website hosting the tool appears to offer a free scan that when clicked on, highlig

4. Avoid
(Top/Antivirus)

...bsp; That doesn't have real-time protection. Sometimes this is inaccurately called 'on-demand' scanning (Despite that being something else.), sometimes it's called 'on-access'...

5. Settings
(Top/Antivirus)

...y do not need. Set the real-time scanner to not scan files on write, just on read, if that's an option. Scanning a file on write is fairly pointless if it's going to be scanned every time it&#...

6. Config
(Top/Antivirus)

...ntivirus. When the install is finished, update your definations and then, if possible, scan your computer. Scanning your computer can wait, but do not wait until the scheduled update to get current d...

7. Prevention
(Top/Antivirus)

...nything, some of them use too much CPU time, and some of them interfere with legitimate programs. Heuristic scanning has always been an idea that works better in theory than practice. Whe...

8. Prevention
(Top/Antispyware)

...hing your keystrokes 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 soft...