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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Cisco ASA with CSC module bypassing

We recently upgraded from a Watchguard X5500e Peak firewall appliance to a Cisco 5500 ASA with the CSC module. The ASA is running the 8.2 software and the CSC is on the 6.3.1172 software. We've finally gotten everything stabilized after a few…
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md5sum or sha1sum of legitmate microsoft system files

Is there a database or repository of the legitimate checksums for Microsoft system files? We think we have a 0day on DNS for Windows 2003 SP2 using IRC for command and control. (Latest McAfee does not see an issue). I want to compare our customer's…
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Unknown Directory Shortcut File or Mount | VISTA

I have this weird mount icon after a trojan cleanup days ago for a client. The icon when clicked takes you to the My Computer guid. The file properties are Type: File, Location: C:\, Size: 6.76. If we try to delete it will not complete. I search…
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What antivirus software is recommended for Windows Server and Small Business Server?

I wounder what antivirus software is recommended for a Windows Server 2008 or a Small Business Server 2008. I would like to have one that: Is easy to maintain. Has good performance I don't need anyone that is complex and has support for clients.…
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Antivirus patch using gpo?

Can i use gpo for antivirus patches or update ? is there any way i can extend wsus to do it ?
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HP ML350G6 running hyper-V 2008 r2 resets itself every 2 hours

The system started resetting itself exactly every 2 hours. These are the messages in the iLO2 log: Informational iLO 2 03/07/2010 20:40 03/07/2010 20:40 1 Server power restored. Caution iLO 2 03/07/2010 20:40 03/07/2010 20:40 1 Server reset. It's…
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Preventing VPN connections for clients that have no active virusscanner

Is there a way to prevent VPN connections based on certain security related criteria, such as presence of a virusscanner and virus definitions? In our case, we have a Windows Server 2008 acting as a domain controller and RRAS server. We also have…
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Missing management console for Symantec Antivirus, Corporate Edition

I work for a small (80 employees) non-profit organization. We have a Windows network with a domain. The file server is running Server 2003. A vendor recently installed Symantec Antivirus, Corporate Edition, ver. 10.1.8.8000. It used to be the case…
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Zimbra sends alarms for service restarts by its cronjobs

I'm trying to solve an issue where we get ~8 nightly mails from Zimbra OSE 8. They'll look i.e. like this one: Dec 21 00:46:15 hostname zmconfigd[16202]: Service status change: exhostname amavis changed from stopped to running The mails appear for…
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A Batch script to call virustotal api and add a windows firewall rule if a baddie is detected?

Basically, when I connect to any site, it loads not only stuff on that server, but also stuff like background images, scripts, icons, fonts from third party sites. I was wondering if it would be possible to run a virustotal check and block the…
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How can I prevent a service from being stopped in Task Manager (Or McAfee EPO)

I have a service that should never be stopped and am looking into different ways to prevent stopping the process. This is a managed environment connected to Active Directory. Can any Windows-based technique or McAfee EPO solution that can assist in…
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Which files to scan for viruses (or how to reduce the cost of a full scan) on Linux (Debian)?

It may be irrelevant but anyway: I'm using clamscan to check my system. The problem is that a full system scan needs far more than one day. When you plan to do one scan a day, that's not acceptable. Additionally the scan sometimes consumes a huge…
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Sophos Antivirus or other Firewall/AV blocking Tomcat or AmazonS3Client listObjects() method?

I have a pair of Java/Tomcat web applications running on a third party (customer) server, and of late, those applications can no longer list or download objects from AmazonS3. This is a "nothing changed" situation, where I got a bug report out of…
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Windows defender real-time protection "disabled"

Initially windows defender was disabled for some reason in Windows server 2016. I enabled it from gpedit.msc by disabling "Turn off windows defender". When opening Windows defender, it shows real-time protection "disabled". I went to settings and…
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Active Directory Server out of service with LSASS.exe using more than 50% of CPU

My DC (Windows Server 2003 R2) randomly goes offline denying all requests and writing on the System Event log an error 2019 from source SRV "The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty". The machine is…