sophos

Can one browser snoop on activity in another, assuming good security software is running (I just switched from Norton to Sophos)? I want to separate my Google activity from other things, so I'm considering running G things (gmail, Drive, Play Music) in Chrome only, and do all my other browser...

I am getting these random ".exe has stopped working" windows pop up, they are all random 12 digit .exe's. all alphabetic no numbers. i have Trend Mirco Titanium Maximum Security 2012. Trend hasn't failed me ever. i also used Sophos Virus Removal Tool and it found 2 malware. supposedly it got...

The first time I post a problem here, found some sulutions for some other problems here. Ad our work we installed 10 new PC HP Z400 workstations with windows 7 64bits, we installed Office 2007 small business and Autocad 2011, Sophos anti virus. After our install every thing seems to work fine...

Hello, I left my Dell laptop running a Sophos anti-rootkit scan overnight. This morning I found six extra windows open, which looked like this: Link Removed They were named: pgrhbx.exe xcshfl.exe tvbgvq.exe bgqrmm.exe lhftkp.exe dwrcdn.exe which looks like six randomly generated letters for...

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The final, conference-ready code for the #decodeme challenge is here. Each year, at the AusCERT conference, Sophos publishes a challenge in the form of a T-shirt. Visit the Sophos stand and you can pick up a T-shirt for yourself. Solve the challenge and you're on your way to winning a remote...

Link Removed Who would have thought it? A free anti-virus program for Apple Macs being named best anti-malware solution ahead of those security products for boring old Windows. Free Antivirus for Mac - Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition Well, that's exactly what happened at the SC...

Money is the driving factor behind the rise of Computer Viruses, a security expert has calimed. The increasing amount of computer viruses being created can be attributed to money, it has been suggested. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, has claimed that organised...

Source: Ransomware Trojan is back and badder than ever ? The Register

Fake Microsoft update emails circulating Don't be fooled: Microsoft isn't going to offer you "an experimental private version" of a Windows update, whatever the email says. Security vendor Sophos has Link Removed of a spammed malware campaign masquerading as a security update for various...

World of Warcraft users get another worry Sexy girls are not always what they seem By Link Removed - Invalid URL Friday, 27 November 2009, 12:15 INSECURITY FIRM Sophos is warning World of Warcraft users to be on the look out for sexy strangers bearing dangerous gifts. According to the...

Hi everyone, I'm running Windows 7 Pro x64 on a Dell XPS M1530, and I've been having issues with the system locking up intermittently. The lockups occur at random and seem to be independent of how many and what programs I am running. Lockups have occured both when the computer is idle and when...

Microsoft is calling out security vendor Sophos for 'sensationalizing' claims about the security of Windows 7, claiming that anitvirus is still a necessary piece of the Windows security puzzle. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Hi all! I can happily report that Sophos 7.6.8 works great for me on my 64-bit version of Windows 7 build 7100. Link Removed - Invalid URL UPDATES: My CPU is a intel pentium 4 ht 3.00ghz and the CPU speed is at 6% with sophos and msn running :)