At the time, some antivirus vendors declared the program the worst mass-mailing computer virus to hit internet users. Moreover, they are all difficult to clean from an infected Microsoft Windows-based PC, because they stop the system from...
The progress of German police in the case pleased Hemanshu Nigam, head of Microsoft's Anti-Virus Reward Program, which has a $5m pool for rewarding people who ferret out those who release viruses and worms.
Now that the system is virus free, it's time to scan for adware with a utility such as PestPatrol (which also removes spyware) or my personal favorite, which is Ad-aware from Lavasoft. When faced with an IE hijacking, you should first scan the...
Like many other Trojans, Bankash will also steal passwords and online banking details from Windows users. Antivirus experts, who are calling the Trojan Bankash-A, say it is the first piece of malware to attack Microsoft's anti-spyware product...
The virus was easily neutralised by the mobile antivirus product on Wooldridge's phone. A Sydney-based business partner of the mobile anti-virus company SimWorks said his Nokia 6600 had contracted the smartphone virus from a taxi driver's...
Botnets gave them the anonymity they required and the increasing penetration of always-on home broadband networks made them very effective and often undetected by the infected host. Because few AV packages follow the links, they are able to pass...