antivirus
Antivirus paralyzes Computer
last week there have been a lot of reports from the users of an antivirus program called BitDefender. The owners of this program could not start their PC if they were running 64-bit version of Windows. The experts have concluded that the cause has been in the recent update, that made the program think that [...]
Kaspersky Lab patents cutting-edge hardware antivirus solution
Kaspersky has announced successful patenting of a new hardware-based antivirus system that effectively combats rootkits. The new technology makes use of a hardware-based antivirus solution whose primary function is to neutralize the most widespread type of threat – malicious programs that store themselves or infect files on a computer’s hard drive. The patented antivirus program [...]
Eset’s harmful programs statistics
The Eset company – the makers of a popular antivirus software, released it’s statistics of top internet-threats that were discovered by Eset specialist crew using the “early locate” technology – ThreatSense.Net in October 2009. The first place for the number of world infections was given to an internet worm Conficker, the total amount of computers [...]