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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What is the smallest anti-virus software for use on Windows NT machines?

I have some really old machines and want to run a virus scan on them. They only have about 64mb RAM, 333Mhz processor, etc. I don't want a whole suite, just something light weight and effective.
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Is it important to deploy a SharePoint-specific anti-virus solution?

I'm looking at the positives and negatives of deploying a SharePoint-specific anti-virus solution at the moment. Is this important if all the desktop clients are running anti-virus? Will installing SharePoint A/V noticeably impact performance? Are…
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Does System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection require the use of Configuration Manager?

We have a relatively small organization (~15 users), and have used the ForeFront EndPoint Protection 2010 desktop client without the use of central management, like Configuration Manager. Now that the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and…
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What Security Suite to choose?

What security suite would you recommend in an environment consisting of roughly 120 PC's and some 30 servers? Environment is MS only, so Exchange and ISA must also be supported.
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Antivirus Appliances instead of per PC software?

Is there such thing as an Antivirus appliance that would sit at the top of your network and identify/block threats? I'm just thinking that it would be nice, if all the traffic is being scanned by the antivirus software on individual computers…
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Disable Security Center on SYSPREP-ed Windows XP

I am deploying Windows XP SP3 images in a stand-alone environment using SYSPREP. I am updating an existing image with patches, drivers, etc. Although my first images never launched Windows Security Center at first login, my new images are.…
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Antivirus for Windows 2003?

I need to find antivirus for Windows 2003 server. I only have one server. Does anyone know how I can buy the software for just one server (no workstations) for around $50 is possible.
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Is Windows Server 2008R2 NAP solution for NAC (endpoint security) valuable enough to be worth the hassles?

I'm learning about Windows Server 2008 R2's NAP features. I understand what network access control (NAC) is and what role NAP plays in that, but I would like to know what limitations and problems it has, that people wish they knew before they…
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Comodo Antivirus - Free antivirus for commercial use

has anyone had any experience with Comodo Antivirus? Normally things are not free for commercial use unless you go down the open source way. I would like to know iof anyone has deploy this antivirus across their network succesfully and how good it…
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Anti-virus on a Windows/IIS Webserver

How many of you run anti-virus on your sole-purpose Windows IIS Webserver (no Web surfing from the machine, does handle some file uploads)? Why or why not? For purpose of discussion, let's say a small .NET forms/database application with a SQL…
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Good antivirus for Terminal Services environment (Windows Server 2008)

I'm looking for a good antivirus to install on a Windows Server 2008 with Terminal Services enabled and 10 concurrent user that run app on this server through app remote ... This server is in a simply Workgroup network, and i want to install on it…
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What is the Your Favorite Managed Anti-Virus for a Small Workgroup (under 25 Machines)?

I am a solo IT employee for a small company that has a couple of servers and 10 workstations (Windows and Mac, Macs do not run AV software). I want to centrally manage Anti-Virus for all the computers with some sort of control panel. I have been…
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How to ask antivirus software to work slower and hence use less disk access?

It is our policy for our end-user's computers (usually laptops) to have high power CPUs, GPUs, RAMs (no less than 16GB) and HDD space (1TB), but we save money by choosing lower rotation speed of HDD. We have very high rotation speed for our servers…
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How to prevent the installation of third-party AVs for a domain using GPOs?

Our organization uses a particular AV that we manage, but we currently have no way to enforce users not to install any other AVs, which has started to become an issue. I know windows can typically detect what AV software it has installed through WMI…
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Suricata logs "A Network Trojan was detected". Is it false positive?

I use the Suricata as IDS on the local network that it doesn't the internet. It logged a few alerts from some clients that said A Network Trojan was detected. All log's properties are in the following: Protocol: 006 Source: Client IP Destination:…
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