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When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years ...

Note, though, that in testing, AVG blocked every actual ransomware sample before it could even launch. The scan reported no malware, but it did find what it called advanced issues. Passwords in ...

However, it was said that ToddyCat was able to place a malicious variant of version.dll alongside ESET’s scanner, which forced the endpoint protection tool to run the custom malware and thus ...

A Chinese-affiliated threat actor known for its cyber-attacks in Asia has been observed exploiting a security flaw in security software from ESET to deliver a previously undocumented malware codenamed ...

Avast's Smart Scan watches for malware, warns of vulnerable Wi-Fi networks ... In the latest round of testing, Avast, AVG, and Bitdefender scored a perfect 100%. Avira, ESET, and Trend Micro ...

Let’s dive into the world of Linux server security and discover the essential tools that can help you stay ahead of cyber threats. ClamAV is a robust free and open-source anti-malware engine built to ...

AVG Web TuneUp is a free tool to protect PCs from malware and web trackers. Unfortunately, the tool that was meant to ward off malware itself contained a flaw that put the data of millions of ...

"This revelation led us down a rabbit hole into the operations of an emerging threat actor known as Coquettte – an amateur cybercriminal leveraging Proton66's bulletproof hosting to distribute malware ...

and just head to Scan & Clean > Quick Scan to run a basic malware check, or Logs to review what’s been going on recently. The real value here, though, is for more experienced users who’ll ...