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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Can I run a Diff between a VM and its backup?

I have a program which I've been using for over a year that I recently discovered is laced with a virus. I do not want to reformat the entire computer mostly because even if I backed up the data, I wouldn't be able to tell if I'm porting the virus…
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Avoiding viruses 101

I'm looking to send out an email to my users to give them advice on avoiding getting viruses and phishing emails. I've found http://www.sonicwall.com/furl/phishing/ which is a bit dated and is primarily for phishing but still applies a bit for…
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Windows anti-virus off Linux server

We have a customer trying to replace all Windows Servers with Linux. Problem he has only Windows clients. We are able to migrate most of the server apps. But the antivirus suites he has and all alternative we can think off needs Windows Server. Is…
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blat.exe getting deleted from my servers

we're using blat.exe as part of many of our setups on Windows Server 2003 SP2 without any problem to send mails via command line. It's simply great. Now, some software we are using provides blat.exe as part of their installation. The problem: from…
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Multi-threaded linux antivirus software that works with new kernels

Q1: Does anyone know of some real-time, on-access protection antivirus software for linux, that is capable of fully utilizing multi-core processors of today? I am having issues using KAV for Samba, as while it does its on-access scanning, files are…
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how i can write test virus?

i have a website and in website some people can upload files .... and when user upload file it must scan from virus by antivirus ... so i need test virus have the following extention (.doc ,jpg, png, jpeg, gif, doc, docx, pdf, xls, xlsx ) to sure…
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Anti-virus software for older PCs

Where I'm at we're still running a bunch of single-core 2003-era machines with 512Mb RAM. These PCs all have Kaspersky anti-virus software installed, and Kaspersky is killing the performance of the older machines. I know Kaspersky is the problem,…
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Does anyone have references/metrics on the value of installing antivirus software - especially on servers?

I strongly dislike antivirus software. In my opinion, the av software behaves much like a virus. The recent Symantec incident of actually causing server crashes, resource use, software interference, and user safety bias are each very…
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Exchange Antivirus - On Box or in the Cloud?

Our Exchange aware antivirus product is due to be renewed in a little over a month. These days it's reduced to doing little more than antispam and attachment blocking. Part of me is tempted by a cloud or edge solution such as Google Message Security…
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antivirus for sharepoint

I need some style of antivirus for sharepoint, mainly for scanning any uploaded user documents. Is there anything (cheap) available out there that you have used before? I contacted our regular anti-malware company and they quoted us at $40,000 for…
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server based vs client based antivirus systems

Can someone tell me the difference between the 2? Is it like server based antivirus updates itself on the server so other clients connected to it and just download the update locally. Whereas in client based each would have to update via the web?
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Symantec Endpoint Protection - Replicating my sites

I have Symantec Endpoint Protection Installed on a Windows Server 2003 machine, this has VPN links to two other offices with Windows Server 2003 machines. I am trying to replicate Symantec Endpoint Protection to these machines. I have installed the…
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Malware vs Viruses

Is there a legitimate technical difference between malware and viruses? I have looked at the Wikipedia entries but I am not really seeing the difference. Currently, I kind of feel like this is just Symantec's way of getting more money for products…
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Experience with HAVP

I have employees that have to search sketchy virus-ridden websites as part of their job. They all have XP and Symantec AV installed but they still get hit fairly often. Rather then trying all sorts of desktop level solutions, I was thinking about…
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Anti-virus and network ports?

I think that anti-virus would be able to determine the virus even before it gets into the OS (Windows/Linux) by filtering at the network interface port itself. Right? But, how do viruses escape that filtering too? Thanks in advance, Karthik Balaguru