1. Welcome
(Forum/AntiVirus)

Welcome to the forum. This forum is for questions about viruses and antivirus software. You have to register to post, but can read without registering.

2. American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) partners with Microsoft on online safety for children
(News/Microsoft)

...stablish guidelines to protect children from Internet threats, such as online predators, hackers, spyware, viruses, and identity theft. Read more: Recent Security at Home informationPediatricians work...

3. Avoid
(Top/Antivirus)

...ually via a the right-click content menu in Explorer. That doesn't present detailed information about viruses found. ...

4. Settings
(Top/Antivirus)

...ceive mail, keep it on. If you're using webmail, it's not doing anything for you, but it will stop viruses from emailing things directly from your computer. If you find you can't send or r...

5. Scheduling
(Top/Antivirus)

...the definitition update. A small thing, but you'd be surprised how many people's computer scan for viruses at eleven at night, and update their definitions at one in the morning. That's no...

6. 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

7. Worms
(Top/Antivirus)

...ich are executable programs that copy themselves from computer to computer using security holes. Most 'viruses' these days are just that, a worm. 'Worm' sounds a bit more innocent than...

8. 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

9. Spyware
(Top/Antispyware)

Spyware isn't viruses or worms, in that it generally won't copy itself to other computers, and it has a thin veil of legality in that you usually installed it, although you probably were trick