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Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap Came across this article surfing my usual tech news sites and wanted to get y'all's thoughts. I know @Neemobeer and I have had a few posts...

Hi, Does anyone know please what rules should be created in Windows Firewall in order for NOD32 Antivirus to update, considering that intentionally, manually all outbound traffic is blocked, and all the rules should be created manually. Thank you.

Hi Often when I boot my computer I get a notice that says "Windows Defender needs to scan your system" in the Action Center. When I click on the message, sometimes it takes me to the Windows Defender Window, where it says that everything is up to date my computer is clean and no action needs...

So my Windows Firewall has been playing up recently. I have no other firewalls on my PC and just use Windows Defender and Malwarebytes for antivirus. A few months ago the firewall started requesting access for any application that wanted to connect to the internet every time I opened the...

I was using Bitdefender Antivirus previously. Afterwards, I Uninstalled it. But Windows defender is not working now. I turned it on and but it turns off automatically in few seconds. Sent from my Redmi Note 3 using Tapatalk

Hi I was browsing looking at message about issues that people having problems in Chrome and I got one of those fake security warnings. It's the first one I've gotten myself though I know other people who have. Before I closed it with Task Manager I made a screen capture of it.... Link...

Hi After the Widows 10 update today, my computer started acting weird again. I've spent the last couple of days getting it right. This time I immediately uninstalled Chrome and the problems went away again. So it seem pretty conclusive that for some reason Chrome is causing these issues. My...

I have been getting frequent BSODS. I uninstalled my antivirus and did a reinstall that kept files. This helped but I still get random crashes. I am not overclocking or altering anything. I also made sure the system and all drivers were updated.

Avast Security have added AVG to it's portfolio paying $1.3 Billion for the privilege. Whether this means one product will be phased out is still unclear: Reference

A vulnerability or two has been discovered in a range of Norton products: Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy has uncovered critical vulnerabilities in a range of Symantec and Norton Antivirus products, which could be exploited by malicious hackers to launch attacks. Here's the skinny...

Original release date: July 05, 2016 Systems Affected All Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products Overview Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Some of these products are in widespread use throughout government and industry. Exploitation of...

Hi I just got a popup that said "Your Adobe Flash player needs to be updated". I almost clicked on OK, (it had the Adobe logo on it) but my policy is to always go to the official site to get updates never from popups. So I searched and picked a site that looked like the official Adobe site...

Recently Bigbearjedi and I began a conversation in another thread about our beliefs on how ordinary users can stay protected in today's very difficult climate of ransomware and encryption laced infections so lets share our beliefs as we both have active businesses and tell everyone how we...

HI I use a ASUS A555L laptop and recently i have encountered theses error regularly. So far it has happened thrice today. I tried to follow some of the advice on some of the other forum post, i uninstalled my antivirus and updated my drivers and i ran the sfc/SCANNOW and the...

About a week ago I got the Unexpected Store Exception BSOD, the very first BSOD I had gotten in almost two years of owning the computer. Following this, I would frequently get both this and Critical Process Died. I tried every solution I could find online, including uninstalled my antivirus...

Hello Woke up this morning to go on my PC which is normally very fast. This keeps on popping up, I'm not an amateur on computer so I've done virus checks, malware bytes and tried to remove it but I cannot. PS: Ignore the DOCX file as thats my document, its just the the chinese writing!

Hello.. i want to install windows 7 but i have problems when install them... i want some programs but i cant install them.. for example, on adobe flash player stacks on 5% and says internet connection error.. and on some other programs like vlc says nsis error.. i have try to run sfc /scannow...

I've tried everything I could find. I've tried disabling antivirus, I've tried downloading the SDK, ect. None of it works. Every time I get the same message, "An internal error occurred. Please refer to DXError.log and DirectX.log in your Windows folder to determine the problem". Here is what...

I have a number or problems with Windows 10. I just did the upgrade from Windows 7. 1. The login screen freezing up. I got this to work by luck. You have 5 to 10 seconds to going into msconfig to put into safe mode. In safe mode I run my anti rook kit software and found 1 root kit virus...

I have 9 PC's in my home. 7 are running Win7 64bit and 2 are running Win8.1 32bit. All PC's are running Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016. All of the PC's have the latest Win updates from Microsoft and Bitdefender updates. On 1 computer, there is one (and only one) webpage that reports an...