KimFors

Don’t be intimidated out of making changes to your computer that improve your security and reduce the risk to vulnerabilities. An interesting phenomenon of antivirus software is the real time scanning it provides. Recently my laptop hardware was upgraded and it required me to install a new video driver to support the enhanced graphics built into the onboard chipset. I was faithfully scanning my laptop for the latest patches and service pack support as well as checking that the drivers were current for the hardware. The video driver vendor insisted there was an available upgrade and I immediately tried to …

One of the best front lines of defense for the computers on corporate network (or computers for home users) is antivirus software. However, not all antivirus solutions are created equally, and antivirus vendors are challenged with trying to keep the operating footprint small and still catch the viruses, threats and malware.

Some other key things to look for in an antivirus solution is the ability to detect on behavior analytics. This can be referred to as “heuristics” but it allows for additional detection beyond signature recognition. Signature recognition provides a very solid methodology in detection but, if an exact match is …

If you think about your computer’s password like a toothbrush — you must use it every day but don’t share it with anybody else. Then compare your antivirus software to deodorant. Everybody should use it. Period.

The Internet continues to be infiltrated daily with newly introduced and existing spyware, malware, bots, rootkits and worms that are not being cleaned up. Today’s top threats continue to prove this point. Stats report that the top threats being exploited this month are:

Backdoor.Tidserv
This was initially detected in 2008 as a Trojan that uses an advanced rootkit to hide itself. The current variant is infecting …