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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Command-line virus scanner on W2k3

Hey all, I wrote a PoSH script that searches an FTP site and downloads specific zip files. In the process, I use AVG-free to run a scan on the zip files, before and after they are decompressed. Now I am ready to put this sucker into production, on…
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Microsoft Security Essentials: MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate -unc switch does not work

Looking here I can see extracting a downloaded mpam-fe.exe and copying the files to a shared folder should allow me to run the following command from an MSE client so it will pull down the updates from the share: MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate…
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XP Pro SP3 unresponsive requires power down

New to serverfault, but searched google and the forums here and haven't found anything regarding my issue. I have two laptops in my network that are displaying similar issues. They are from different manufactures so it can't be hardware model…
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Kaspersky blocked RDC on Windows - how to fix?

I installed Kaspersky Endpoint security, but as soon as the installer finished, my remote desktop connection broke and I wasn't able to login anymore. Seems that Kaspersky firewall blocks RDC ports and that prevents me from logging in. I can't…
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NAS and Anti-virus

For the past six or so years now I've done without any kind of anti-virus protection on my (personal) desktops/laptops. Between the A/V subscription scams, resource hogging and errors they 'unintentionally' create, I decided that having an infection…
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Do these files look like virus remnants?

We've been having Backup Exec issues related to a corrupt file within SYSVOL on an SBS 2008 server. An anti-virus scan removed a file (the same one BE was failing on) from within the scripts folder as a trojan. The following files are still in the…
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Is AV only needed because of human users?

I rent a VPS, and as an a kneejerk reaction (it's a Windows server), I got AV for it. Given that I do very little with it as a logged-in user (I use it as a web server), bar install my own software on it, and occasionally download Microsoft…
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Mod_security2 and clamav to catch malicious files on upload

Is there a clear documentation to describe the solution? It's very common and also necessary.
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Group policy logon script copies files to client PC but does not execute exe

We are trying to copy 3 files from our domain controller to a user PC and have it execute from a .bat file when a user logs in via Active Directory. When we associate the .bat file to a user in AD for their logon, the PC copies down the 2 files, but…
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Troubleshooting I/O latency possibly caused by file system driver

I have a SQL Server instance (SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows 2008 R2) that complains, for very short, random periods of about 15-20 seconds, that some of its I/O requests are taking longer than 15 seconds. ("SQL Server has encountered x occurrence(s)…
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Rkhunter triggered last night warning for a possible infection. What next?

Last night rkhunter triggered with the following warnings: [04:10:23] Warning: Network TCP port 32982 is being used by /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2. Possible rootkit: Solaris Wanuk Use the 'lsof -i' or 'netstat -an' command to…
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Windows 7 RC1 (x64) and Trend Micro OfficeScan

Our IT dept is going to use 7rc1**(7100)** 64 bit. Unfortunately we are having an issue with OfficeScan. On install attempt it is saying we need to be member's of Administrators. I double checked and we are. Also, UAC is turned off. We were…
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Clients not reporting security status to SBS 2008

I'm managing a small network with Small Business Server 2008 and 7 clients running a mix of Vista and XP. The server and clients are all running McAfee Total Protection Service for malware and spyware protection; the clients are also using the…
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Anti-Malware Antivirus for Linux Web Server?

Does anyone have experience running anti-virus software on a Linux web server, especially CentOS, and what do you recommend? I'm interested in putting it on a web server we have as one more method for detecting and preventing website compromises…
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Windows SBS 2003 SP2 freezing after installing Trend Micro WFBS

I'm new in charge of a server running Windows SBS 2003 with SP 2. First thing after I got in charge of the system was to update the old WFBS 3.7 to the current version. Now the users reporting that sometimes the network connection to the server is…
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