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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Microsoft Security Essentials says phantomjs for Windows has Varpes.M!plock virus

I can scan the zip file phantomjs-2.1.1-windows.zip, and it does not remove anything. But once I unzip the exe, Security Essentials remove the phantomjs.exe. The zip has the correct MD5 checksum. Any solutions?
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Trend Smart Scan server updates thrash the disk

Every 2 hours, Trend Worry Free business updates Smart Scan. This process requires Trend to thrash through 6 gigabytes of data - this causes two issues The file cache, full of LOB data, is lost and replaced with trend data. The VSS based…
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Wordpress Anti Virus exclusions list

Problem background: I am contractually bound to install a system Anti Virus solution on every host. For this product I am running Linux (Red hat derived). These instances are hosting Apache/PHP with Wordpress sites sitting on them (the database is…
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Web sites freeze after clicking link - unexplainable ACK packet

We have a sporadic problem accessing some internal links on websites. (Windows Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome) Behaviour On first clicking a link, the browser will load infinitely. The second click on the same link then works perfectly fine. The…
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Should I install antivirus into windows server 2008?

Ya, should I? If answer is yes: What are the recommended antivirus software to go for? Kaspersky antivirus? Nod32? or any other?
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Is there a quick & easy solution to protect server 2012 against malware?

For a Windows Server 2012 Standard GUI version to support a small IDE Getting malware protection on my 1st server has become a much bigger problem than I imagined it would. My research covered a lot of pages, but the following 2 links stand…
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Block attachment files without extensions in Postfix via mime_header_checks?

We know how to reject executables and other potentially dangerous file extensions via mime_header_checks directive: mime_header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/mime_header_checks (main.cf) /name=[^>]*\.(bat|com|exe|dll|vbs)/ REJECT …
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Why is this server generating outbound IRC connections?

I noticed last night whilst checking our active sessions list on our firewall for something else, that a server was generating outbound IRC connections. Last night there was around 60 connections but this morning it's much less. [root@prod12 ~]#…
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How can a PC be protected from malware without locally installed software?

I'm looking to find a way to protect PCs, without requiring locally installed software. I thought about a device such as a Watchguard that has UTM facilities and make it a transparent proxy, in essence, something that can sit inline on a network…
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Viruses bypassing Trend ScanMail - Could it be a licensing issue or a mime issue

I have some SCR viruses being sent in a ZIP file that are bypassing the Trend Scanner on Exchange 2010 SP1 CU7. There are a few reasons I can think this would be occurring The email message has strange characters, causing the RFC2822 engine in…
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Ports needed for IP Subnet discovery Kaspersky Security Center 10

I'm trying to discover computers based on IP subnets. The administration server is not part of the same workgroup or active-directory as the clients, so this is the only way to do it. I can discover about 1/3-1/2 of my computers. I tried disabling…
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Problems installing Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.2 for Windows Vista

I'm having some problems installing Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.2 for Windows Vista. My client requires this exact version. The system on which I'm installing the software is recently purchased system (i.e. relatively "clean") that came…
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How to stop Forefront from blocking my program?

(I'm not sure if this should go on StackOverflow.) I have a program running at a customer site for ten years now. It takes their data and uses it to fill out web forms. It works by attaching itself to IE using SetWindowsHookEx(). Now the customer…
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Defending PCs against APTs

We are evaluating the security of the PCs used by people with access to high-value company documents. At the moment they are kept patched and run a virus checker, but we are concerned about zero-day exploits and APTs. We've already detected…
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Protecting Backups from Viruses

Currently we are using ReadyNAS RN102 by NETGEAR to hold all our images from all our machines. My question is can viruses expand from the machines and infect the NAS drive and the backups? We are using AOMEI Backupper. EDIT: Basically, I want to…
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