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Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 9.0.0.403 (Windows)

Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable free of charge virus protection to home-users only. Avira offers: Extensive Malware Recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms; Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software; Permanent virus protection, with...

Tags: Virus Protection, Antivirus, Microsoft Windows, Virus, Avira, Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2009-06-19

Avira Premium Security Suite 9.0.0.376 (Windows)

Avira Premium Security Suite protects you in a very comprehensive way against the dangers of the Internet. It offers you numerous additional features over the virus protection offered in the AntiVir Premium Edition. In addition to AntiVir Premium, the Suite includes an integrated firewall that wards off attacks such as...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Microsoft Windows, Attack, Avira, Avira Premium Security Suite, Backups, Security, Viruses And Worms

Software downloads 2009-06-19

Avira AntiVir Premium 9.0.0.441 (Windows)

Avira AntiVir Premium enhances the comprehensive protection of the Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus with important security and configuration functions and protects you against viruses, worms, Trojans, ad/spyware, dialers, bots and dangerous downloads. Version 9 introduces a quick-removal button for eliminating viruses with a single click, enhanced anti-spyware and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Netbook, Virus, Avira, Avira AntiVir Premium, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-19

Additional Resources

Need to do a cleanup on Windows Vista

A friend asked me to look at her daughters laptop, I of course said yes. Turns out the puppy is running Vista. Let me start by saying I have not worked with Vista for more than 10 minutes before this.It is an HP Pavilian DV6000 running Home Premium.The...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, SpyBot

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Trojan

My friend got a Trojan on his computer. How did that happen? Do you get those by visiting chat rooms? He has McAfee on his computer and it says he is protected by them. Why didn't McAfee see this and take care of it? What can he do to prevent...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Shal988@..., McAfee Inc., virus, Avira, SpyBot, trojan horse, malware

Discussion threads 2009-03-24

10 essential (and free) Windows applications

Take AVG off!for the love of God, AVG is the worst.Nice list. Missing a few free essential apps.CutePDF. Installs a printer that allows you create PDF files from any app that prints. Spybot S&D is missing from this list also. Alternatively, Adaware Free edition is nice. I would probably like...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Microsoft Office, Consumer electronics, DVD, CCleaner, CrossLoop, AVG, Adobe PhotoShop, GIMP, SpyBot, Putty, Avast, computer, Windows application

Discussion threads 2008-02-07

So-long AVG

[b]So-long AVG. ....well, for now, anyway.[/b]After years and years using AVG and promoting it to other users, I am now switching gears.I recently installed the latest version 8.0.At first, I liked the new look and built-in features.Then I experienced several 'false positives' (where files are tagged as viruses when they...

Tags: Processors, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, AVG, Avast

Discussion threads 2008-05-18

Best Corporate Antivirus

Hi, our corp license for McAfee Managed Services is about to expire, and I'm looking for alternatives. Here is the criteria my boss has given me:excellent anti-virus and anti-spyware detection and removalseamless automatic virus definition updateweb-based monitoring and administrationConsidering Sophos, F-Prot, Kapersky products, but all three fall short in...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Symantec Corp., Eset, browser interface, Web browser, AVG, Trend Micro Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Microsoft Office 2007 (Access)

Hi, Does anyone know anything about Microsoft Office 2007, Access. It is saving all my files as if it were 2003. I have deleted all files that I could find from Microsoft 2003. I even uninstalled and reinstalled 2007, and downloaded all the updates again, defragged. I have done everything...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Utilities, Microsoft Office 2007

Discussion threads 2008-11-22

A virus problem in our enterprise with ~dulla@204 errors

Our enterprise has a problem regarding a virus problem. Most of our pc uses Windows XP SP2, but all the machiens are infected by a virus called dulla. Symptoms:- it stops all pdf, word, Mozila files.when we try to open, it shows ~dulla@204. ...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

hacktool.rootkit

I did a search on here and see a suggestion of using unhackme from greatissoftware to get rid of the rootkit. Has anyone had success with it?I may have posted thatand though I've never used it, Greatis has had some good stuff I've used in the past, like WinDowse (unrelated...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Rootkits, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, tool, malware, rootkit, Trojan Remover

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

System Recovery for dell inspiron 700m

Hi I am having the dell inspiron 700m laptop...It says there is virus and full pops are coming..i wanted to recover my laptop...how do i need to do it.There is some recovery cd option in my laptop.Please anyone help in this!You need to run anti-virus softwarescan and clean the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, tool, trojan horse, malware, antivirus, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-01-18

VIRUS

Can anyone tell me if there is a free scan or spyware to get rid of monaronadona. ThanksSuggestionsHave you tried using AVG free, getting a trial copy of some pro virus scanner then removing said trial...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, virus, antivirus, trial copy, Anti-virus company

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

Default IE Page Pops Up

I have a strange phenomena on my PC.1. The default homepage of IE goes to http://talk2namratha.googlepages.com2. This IE window popsup every few minutes also.This is highly irritating and I am at my wits end.I must mention here that I use only Firefox for browsing and therefore find this pop-up page...

Tags: Scanners, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Web browsers, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, subram3@...

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

TR Community tip: Top three free software programs

Just 3? -- Ok, here goesFirefoxRegshot CompareAudacityWindows XP Pro!What? I have to pay for that?HOW MUCH??? You're kidding, right?Seriously, I use these daily:Firefox web browserIrfanView image viewerVirtuaWin virtual desktop managerHmmm...Gadwin Print Screen (Thanks for the tip OTR!)IrfanviewOpenOffice.orgLame mp3 encoder (trial version - only does 2 at a time,...

Tags: Web browsers, software, The Scummy One, Mozilla Firefox, IrfanView

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Something interesting happened to my laptop in the...

last 20 hours. Apparently, XP no longer recognizes either Avira (as a anti-virus) or Online Armor as a firewall. As I actually think I know what happened to cause this (I was a bit too careless using Revo Uninstaller's junk files cleaner), this won't be phrased as a question. ...

Tags: SECURITY, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-06-13

Virus

virus Brontok.B detected on network any time acccessing a shared folder. Where can I download an antivrus for it.Brontok.B removalThe virus was detected in March 2006: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/brontok_n.shtmlRemoval instructions from the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team:http://www.mycert.org.my/advisory/MA-104.032006.htmlThe tool UnHookExec.inf used above can be downloaded from Symantec: http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-050614-0532-99SymantecCheck symantec's website to get a...

Tags: lkalyanee@..., networking, Symantec Corp., tool, virus, windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-11

I need some sites to download update packages

I have 1 PC with none connectionAnd i want to download Update packages for my Antivirus and Antispyware. i download packages from Internet Cafe into my USB and transfer packages from USB to my offline PC .But i dont know any sites have packages for offline users.Please show me some...

Tags: mocqueanh@...

Discussion threads 2007-02-03

What type of virus is this? Or is it something else?

One of the computers on our network has a 60 GB partition on it's hard drive. It is the main partition where windows is installed and is used by one of our developers. Windows kept popping up an information box from the task bar saying that the hard drive was...

Tags: nuSkool, windows, windows xp, security, viruses, virus

Discussion threads 2007-02-22

How do I... Secure Microsoft Windows XP Professional?

Disable Network DevicesIf you never put Windows on a network, it will decrease the attack surface of the system. Then place the computer in a vault for physical security.RE: How do I... Secure Microsoft Windows XP Professional?Hmm. Good suggestions... I would use Avira for the virus scan www.free-av.com and Comodo...

Tags: Operating systems, john.gooch@..., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-16