antivirus

Thank you for the help with my prior topic, but a new issue has arisen. I walked away from my computer for a while. When I got back, Chrome had frozen up, and it was so bad I couldn't even get Task Manager opened nor explorer responding in general. The other couple of windows I had open were...

Can I install them and use for scanning files on a virtual host or in shared forlder ? I mean not special versions of antiviruses which intended for virtualization, I mean usual desktop versions.

Okay having a very annoying issue with win10 as of late and its been baffling the heck out of me, my CPU fan without any good reason speeds up every so often in windows 10. It doesnt do it in Linux, I have tried an array of software removals, virus scans, system shutdowns, cleaning dust out my...

seems like pc is acting slowly than normal. could it be from my anti virus? or chrome? or another application? i expect internet to be fast, no substitutions. but we all cannot have what we want, especially if using weak wifi from isp. iam not on ethernet btw. this pc, its old. bought in 2008...

My PC will not stop BSODing and I can't figure out why. At first I thought it was the antivirus but I've since got a new one and it's still doing it. I have a few dump files attached that might help.

I looked at the Pauli/Drew exchange from 2013 and since my question is the WD/Avast/Malwarebytes but is now concerning the new Win 10 I am posting my question below> I am trying out the Win 10 upgrade from Win 7 and I noticed that Windows Defender is turned off. I am using Avast and...

Hey guys, a close friend of min installed Roboscan free version about a week ago. Well I told him that the site and program hasn't been updated since 2013. He told me that he knows that the program has not updated but the virus definitions are updating. It uses the Bitdefender engine and its own...

hi guyz. even i am facing the same problem.but i do'nt know what u r talking about bios and all(as im just a kid) and i was getting the same error while i am upgrading from windows 7 to windows 8.1 as there is a lot of virus in it and i cant use any inbuilt apps of windows due to the virus(not...

I have just upgraded my PC from Windows 8 to Windows 10. My antivirus software needed to restart and boot in to Safe Mode. But, for years I have used the 4 digit pin login from Win 8,but I cannot remember the normal password. Safe Mode ony allows login via the normal password and not the pin...

So to get started i have a Vaio laptop NOW i know i read the article about microsoft telling you NOT to update vaio laptops but when i went away for a week to visit a couple of buds my brother ended up updating it. I had problems with Windows 10 so i decided to downgrade back to Windows 7 and...

I used to use Microsoft Essentials for anti-virus. Seems that with 10 this has now become defender. My question is :- Windows update is supposed to update Defender, but the last definition file is dated 8th August - the day after I upgraded to 10. Essentials used to update on a daily basis...

Hi i have a laptop hp with windows 8 64 bit. i am trying to upgrade to windows 8.1 64 bit i have used space 46.7gb free space 859gb capacity 905 gb momory ram 800 gb when trying to upgrade to windows 8.1 get windows 8.1 couldn't be installed. i have all the microsoft windows updates i...

As of the last few days windows defender will not open or start up and has turned off spyware and virus protection. In the bottom corner of the screen is a flag saying i have 2 PC issues to be solved, which is turning on virus and spyware protection. When i click on it to turn them on an error...

I had a really nasty virus named Obfuscator.xz which forced me to do a total reset of my Windows. After the reset I started getting these BSOD and they seem to appear at random. Additional info, may be unrelated: After my last reinstall it took at least 1 minute to shut down my computer...

So first of all I will apologize for my English since it's not my mother language.Now to the main topic.Today I woke up and when I opened my pc it had trouble with the audio.I thought hmm maybe my headsets are broken or something , so I plugged in x2 new set of headsets but none of them were...

So i can't reserve my free upgrade on my Computer that come with pre-installed Windows 8.1 Pro also there is nothing i mess with it, the OS is official and stock but i did'nt recieve that Windows 10 Update icon in my taskbar, in my Laptop which is done a update of Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 got...

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I've been having consistent BSODs whenever I'm playing Dota 2. So far I have only tried updating my graphics drivers and disabling all startup apps except the antivirus and steam app but the problem still persists. I really need help. PS: I'm not much of a tech guy so I don't understand most...

please , I need some help ! my windows crashed , and after many attempts , I succeeded to recover it with windows cd , but the problem is that all my photos and documents has been corrupted , all still in there but empty: 0 bytes. like when I try to open a photo, it says : " windows photo...

I have Win 8.1 and don't like what I have been reading about Defender. Could I get a time tested opinion about a free a/v and firewall combo? I have MBAM with SpywareBlaster and Defender. if you think that is good enough please comment.