Startup scans are the single most effective way of catching an infection that is already resident when a new signature set is loaded. It really...
Businesses tend to want to make a profit off the products and services they offer. Go figure.
More traditional HIPS implementations basically watch processes during their normal operation and when something unexpected happens (patching,...
If you are distributing updates via a file share, make sure the Domain Computers or Everyone security group has read access to that directory. The...
Real-time scanning doesn't generate disk IO. The applications that you are running make the request to disk and the AV software acts as a...
How do you see that working? As some kind of peer-reviewed system or some kind of automated prioritization system where samples submitted from...
Apparently this was a driver for an Energizer USB battery charger. There was a big stink a few years ago because the driver CD shipped with a...
Do you guys have any contacts with Microsoft to report this? A security vendor is going to get attention brought to it a lot faster than I ever could.
I can't say I've ever seen this one before. One of our mobile users was pulling down updates from download.windowsupdate.com (from what I can tell...
You can enable the removable media block through a configuration file and set exceptions. The problem is that it is defined by USB controller and...
Removable media blocking is a feature v4 has. If drive encryption were to be added, it would be part of the ESS product and not the Nod32 base. As...
I was thinking I would start out at around 100mb and whittle down from there, since these are typically archives in the hundreds of megabytes and...
We occasionally have problems with large archive files failing to download properly (Oracle installers, primarily) because the scanning of them...
Use a program like WinRAR or 7-zip to extract the contents of the ISO to a directory, then point the SysRescue builder there. No need to mount it.
Whenever I renew my license the new expiration date is a year after the old one, so I don't think you need to worry about losing days you paid for.
I agree with your first point, and the way that policies currently are handled forces you have to plan things out really well in advance,...
Once a month our RAS generates a comprehensive report of the prior 6 month's statistics. One of the things that has always bugged me was the...
How do you mean? I've pushed down down deletion of exclusions through my RAS before and the clients honored it.
If you have a rootkit active on your system, it most likely won't help you there. It might make removal of more conventional malware/viruses...
There are some known issues with computer freezing and Office2003/2007 that Microsoft is working on. It seems to be rooted in a KB from September...
The dllhost (rundll32) things you are referring to are the the Windows Update service that comes with the operating system from Microsoft. You'll...
I've had a few systems do this sporadically since last week: All clients are updating definitions correctly and since this has spanned over...
These kinds of "tweak guides" really aren't a good idea for reasons exactly like this. Looking through the list of things recommended to be...
I've seen things get blocked from Hulu and Youtube today as well.
The AV software operates on layer 7 of the OSI model by intercepting inbound HTTP traffic for interrogation along with GET requests for updates....
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