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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Good resource for evaluting AV and anti Malware software?

I am looking for good resources to use to compare the effectiveness of various antivirus/antimalware software solutions. In particular, I am comparing Windows Security Essentials against Symantec Endpoint. Are there good, objective resources…
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Sophos what is the current client definition?

I'm unfamiliar with Sophos Endpoint Security and have taken over a client who is using version 9.5. The Sophos server appears to be updating without issues, but the clients are unable to receive the new updates from the server. I'd like to know when…
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File corrupted by some tools (probably virus or antivirus)- does the pattern indicate any known corruptions?

As part of our software we install postgres(windows). In one of the customer sites, a set of files got corrupted. All files were part of timezone information(postgres/share/timezone). They are some sort of binary files. After the corruption, they…
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Norman Antivirus corporate virus log file

Does the Norman Antivirus corporate edition log virus detections in a central place? It currently sends out virus emails, but that is not so good for parsing the log files. My desired end result would be to be able to see detections or a per user or…
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Plesk Free Antivirus Advise

I have many issues on my Linux server, a lot of malicious files have been added. Can you advise a good Virus Software to install on Plesk , that is free of charge? Or that at least is VERY cheap?! Thanks!!!
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Open source antivirus/antispam/web filtering gateway

Possible Duplicate: Open Source Unified Threat Management Software Options I want to install firewall which have following features Antispam, Anti Virus, Webfiltering, Userwise access, Intrusion prevention etc. is any product from open source…
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Dedicated Server hit with viruses

Since setting up my dedicated server I have been hit with many viruses. 1 would eat up my bandwidth and another is currently sending out trojans to any outgoing mail from my mail server. Is there a way to set up a server to prevent this from…
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Configuring Realtime AV Scanning. Pros/Cons of Read, Write or Read/Write

I'm currently reviewing our AV configuration for our environment, and reviewing how the real-time scanner is configured. The options that I have for the real-time configuration is as follows. On Read On Write On Read and Write I could not find any…
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Top Infected Machines - Dealing with Threats?

I printed out a list of the top 25 infected machines (associate machines only) a bit of detail. Associate machines are only for sales associate. The domain login is the same for every machine, associates are provided internet, email, and in-house…
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Portable Malware Scanning Software for Win2008

Is there any malware/spyware/virus scanning software that can be run via USB or other means to scan a windows server 2008? It needs to be something that does not need to be installed.
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Does Symantec Endpoint Use Windows Server User Licenses?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing issue? I'm evaluating how many user licenses I need for Windows Server 2008. There will only be two users who need physical / remote desktop to the server itself, but I plan to…
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550 5.7.1 Your email messages have been blocked by the recipient OR by Trend Micro Email Reputation Service

I have an email account with POP3 connection and I am having a problem sending emails when I'm out of the office. I keep getting this email error message "550 5.7.1 Your email messages have been blocked by the recipient OR by Trend Micro Email…
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Best client and server antivirus for 5 user office?

I'm setting up an Active Directory environment for 5 users (very small) and I'm wondering what is the best antivirus for clients (Windows 7) and servers (Server 2008 R2 x64)? I use Symantec Corp at my organization (50+ users) but I think that is…
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ESET NOD32 Antivirus error on update - base file missing

I have taken over the administration of a Windows Server 2008 64bit installation. The server has ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition v4.2 installed. The server hasn't been updating its virus signature database in the last few days, and upon trying…
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Trace process which changes filesystem Windows 7 x64 Enterprise edition

There is some malware process which is writing the folder $RECYCLE.BIN to every drive in my system. How can I find out which process is doing that. Is there a sysinternals tool? i'm pretty sure of some virus activity
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