Questions tagged [anti-virus]

Antivirus is software used to prevent, detect and remove malware.

Antivirus is software used to prevent, detect and remove malware.

Malware is defined as any software application which subverts the will of the legitimate owner of a computer, by means of force or subterfuge, with or without personal or monetary gain on the part of the creator. Some common malware types are viruses, adware, backdoors, malicious BHOs, dialers, hijackers, keyloggers, rootkits, spyware, trojan horses and worms.

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Forefront Client Security - Deploying to client PCs

I wonder if someone can help me - I'm a developer who's having to build/run a small network for a new startup until we can get a real Network Admin on board. I have very little experience with running a domain so am reading everything I can lay my…
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Enterprise desktop antivirus without a Windows server

Are there any desktop antivirus products suitable for use in an enterprise environment without a Windows server? We're currently using McAfee for our Windows desktops but to get updates and alerts with the latest version it looks like you need to be…
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Suggestions requested on what to cover in seminar on `Recent Trends in Virus & Anti-virus Stratagies`

I'm going to give a seminar on "Recent Trends in Virus & Anti-virus Strategies" as a part of my course work in my Post Graduation. I got two months of time. So, I want to fully utilize this period. I myself chosen this topic because I want to master…
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Sending a file to a remote clamd instance

I may be misunderstanding how to utilize clamd. I've got a situation where I have a media server that isn't quite powerfull enough to scan files as well as host the other services it is running (raspberry pi). While I was looking through clamd.conf…
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How often should we virus scan our computers?

We are just in the final stages of finishing our AV management solution (McAfee ePO) and we are fine tuning our client policies. How often should we have our client PC's & Macs run a system scan? I know some people advocate daily scanning, but the…
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ClamAV for the host running docker containers - inotify/fanotify limits

I'm implementing anti-virus solution for Linux with ClamAV daemon running in On-Access mode, watching the created/opened files for malicious content at the host system AND in docker containers, running at the host. What limitations I've found so…
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Is there a server side or cloud-side Windows Defender installation administration tool for admins?

I am considering starting the wide use of Windows Defender antivirus on Windows 10, so I am looking is there a way to get a feedback from machines running Windows 10 Defender? It would also be nice if WD could be controlled on Windows 10 thru a…
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How to remove active_desktop_launcher.exe by KuGou

Hi I am running Windows Server 2012 R2. And I am facing a strange problem. There active_desktop_launcher.exe service is randomly get executed and takes up 100% of CPU utilization slowing the whole server down. It automatically get executed even…
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windows Antimalware using high CPU with local TCP links

I have observed a problems with Windows Antimalware Service Executable using high CPU when two processes on my computer are communicating over TCP. If I disable realtime scanning in defender the problem goes away. However, disabling this comes with…
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How to find complete installer location which is installed using small size initiator .exe on Windows 10

Some time companies give small setup.exe file, for example 2 MB .exe of Kaspersky which we run and that will connect to the company server, download complete installer/setup and install the software. So I want to know the location of downloaded full…
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Physical and software firewall

I wanted to know if having two firewalls is usefull at all. I'm an apprentice in a company and the I'm the only one in my company who knows little about networking. We have a cisco firewall and each computers have a kaspersky anti virus solution…
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Are there any open source network-wide antivirus?

I am looking for a free solution. I read about Untangle, and long ago I used IPCop. I know, they are not AV per se, but they have the ability and include AV softwares. However, I need a bit more. I need the feature of scanning a single PC, or a…
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How to fix erroneous virus detection?

We make free software available on our web site. A few years ago, one of the virus scanners started complaining about some of our executables. We rebuilt everything from source code, verified things were working correctly, etc. There are no…
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Best client server protection

I have around 80 laptops connected to Active Directory server.(Windows Server 2008 r2). Currently all the laptops have Avast free antivirus on them. Is there any way I can check for unprotected laptops through active directory.
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Windows Server 2008 Antivirus Software with an API

I'm looking for an Antivirus package that is compliant with Windows Server 2008. That's not the hard part. What I need is an API layer on the Antivirus that i can call from managed .net code. For example: I am developing an Asp.Net (C#) website…