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Microsoft say that Windows Defender in Windows 8 and 8.1 is strong enough and there no need to other Internet Security software. Is this true?

Lex Thomas welcomes Mark Simos, an Architect for the Cyber, Security and Identity team here at Microsoft, to discuss tools, techniques and services that are available to help mitigate “Pass-the-Hash” and other forms of cyber credential theft. Tune in as they give us an in-depth overview of the...

Hey, everyone. My first BSOD occurred about 10 days ago, randomly and frequently. I'd done SFC /scannow and 'Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth', nothing wrong. Then several rounds driver verifier, uninstalled some programs with drivers that triggered BSOD, drivers indicated by...

I have Comodo Internet Security premium antivirus program and a lot of popup windows appear to allow of a program to start all the time (system apps and user apps and when i try to start a program) in a rate that is very annoying. It wasn't like this before. What should i do to fix it?

Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the private preview of Link Removed, a security and threat information exchange platform for analysts and researchers working in cybersecurity. Interflow uses industry specifications to create an automated, machine-readable feed of threat and security...

First of all, if this is not the right forum, please switch me to it. Over the last several months, I have had a number of Windows shut downs for no apparent reason (often right after I boot up in the morning although at other random times, too). Usually, I am not present when it happens -...

I reinstalled Windows 7,and everything was fine until I tryed updating it.Every time after installing and restarting it says "Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes. Do not turn off your computer" and when I click on the details it's the "0x80070005" error (ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED...

Hi, guys., my friend's PC was fine until he re-signed in to him account today, after then it's crashed (BSOD), and code is: 0xc000021 here is crash dump analysis: On Thu 2014-05-01 00:39:36 GMT your computer crashed crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\050114-17578-01.dmp This was probably...

There are a number of old posts regarding this problem and some people were able to fix their problem using the guidance provided. However, many people, including myself, were tearing their hair out because none of the provided suggestions worked. The suggestions included: ensuring Volume...

Has anyone else noticed, that ever since installing the January Patch Tuesday updates in Windows 8.1 that the right-click context menu is missing the option to show the next desktop background. My pc hasn't had any malware to explain this according to Malwarebytes free, SUPERAntiSpyware...

I recently got COMODO and every time my windows 7 OS loads up it promts me if i want to run the snz.exe executable. I dont know if prior to me getting comodo SNZ.exe was executed or not, but my point is that from reading online about this executable i dontr know if it malware or not. Some...

When you install Kaspersky, it asks to disable the browser's password manager, saying that it might cause it's password manager problems, but I chose not to, and it seemed to work okay. However, when I installed an update for Kaspersky, it disabled it anyway. Maybe the option was there not to...

Hi, I have Windows XP SP1. When I turn on my laptop (ACER), open Windows 7, after a few seconds the memory usage of explorer.exe increases significantly to reach 2Gb after a couple of minutes. Then, the system is very slow and I have to kill explorer.exe. I tried mostly everything: - clean...

While researching a problem with making a device attached to my router appear in Windows, I found an article about the ports that have to be opened for this to occur Windows help and learning I found the section of Kaspersky Pure 3.0 that deals with this, but am not at all sure how to use it...

In the process installing Imgburn on my Think Centre, Outpost Security Suite popped a trojan alert squawking about "Adware.OpenCandy!UQ/lkedzl9U". Several website where I've checked on it showa a relatively low detection rate, something like 4 out of 48. While I understand that tends to point...

Hey guys Ive been ignoring this issue for the longest time, Ive ran Super Anti Spyware, Megabytes,Windows defender,Spybot,Security Essentials and got rid of alot of junk but still encountering this one issue in my task manager if i open a program then close it and reopen it and once again close...

I watch videos on a site and when I finish watching the bandwidth in DU Meter keeps running at 400-500 KB's/s. It would appear that it's like the videos are still running but they are not because the site and anything to do with it is shutdown. Not even a browser is running. Task manager tells...

is kaspersky pure 2.0 is better than kaspersky internet security? in both field of antivirus and internet security?

A few days ago, I started a new thread about Windows 8 OS called, “After two weeks with Windows 8, I find it the least stable OS”. http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/18137-after-two-weeks-windows-8-i-find-least-stable-os-new-post.html My opinion was based on my personal...

I just got an Acer Predator. I transferred settings from XP using Windows Easy Transfer. The Internet connection was working perfectly. I installed Comodo Firewall, Avira AntiVir and ThreatFire. Then it could not connect. I plug the Ethernet cable into the XP computer and it connects no...