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 antivirus do you recommend for dev boxes

What antivirus would you recommend for computers used for windows development. Would you use an antivirus for these users? These users compile quite often and therefore read and write tons of files. If I deploy a slow performing antivirus, they will…
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What is the best enterprise virus-scanning system?

What enterprise virus-scanning systems do you recommend?
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Enterprise anti-virus recommendations and experiences

What do you use or recommend for an enterprise anti-virus solution? Please include your good and bad experiences; they're valuable information for others considering solutions. Please be specific about versions, some products have improved or not…
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Fake alert viruses - Warning to users

I've had a lot of employees lately come to me with issues on their home PCs where they have had Fake Alert/Rogue viruses. I was planning on sending out a warning to users explaining to them that these are actually viruses. I was also planning on…
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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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AVG offline install

Is it possible to install AVG antivirus (the free version) offline? If so where would I go on their site to download that?
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Best way to force Antivirus scan on removable drive

Is there any way to force antivirus to scan USB once plugged, either in Symantec or Mcafee.
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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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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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How to fix erroneous virus detection?

We make free software available on our web site. A few years ago, one of the virus scanners started complaining about some of our executables. We rebuilt everything from source code, verified things were working correctly, etc. There are no…
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Should I install antivirus into windows server 2008?

Ya, should I? If answer is yes: What are the recommended antivirus software to go for? Kaspersky antivirus? Nod32? or any other?
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Server side url scanner for malware, spyware , viruses and protect my visitors

I have a forum/groups site that contains a lot of external URLs, sometimes direct download links. I want to protect my visitors from possible attacks from malware sites as they are mot likely to click on these links. CUrrently I implement DBL…
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Anti-virus solution for Win CE devices?

Is there a corporate solution to maintain/update anti-virus software for WinCE devices? The security team is concerned about these devices connecting to the network and are requiring AV. A subquestion might be: is this a credible risk? I did find…
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Best Antivirus for Workstation today

would you tell me 3 antivirus programs and put them into TOP 3 list? Should i take Kaspersky, AVG, Avast, McAfee or Symantec? Thanks!
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