The Emsisoft Emergency kit is a portable computer cleanup and virus scanning tool for Windows. The kit is basically a collection of programs, four to be precise, that can be run without installation from any device that is connected to the computer system. Included in the emergency kit are a disc scanner to check and [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Panda Cloud Antivirus made quite an impact in 2009 when it was officially released after an initial beta testing period. The cloud driven antivirus solution combined effective virus protection with a smaller local footprint and lesser updating hassles thanks to its cloud based design. But resource efficiency is only one benefit of cloud based antivirus [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

A common rule for Windows users is to install and use only one antivirus software solution at a time. Most developers ask the computer user to uninstall other security software before the new software can be installed. It is however possible to install different types of security software that can be run next to each [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Virus Total is one of the most useful security services on the Internet. The service can be used by everyone to upload and scan files using multiple antivirus engines. It can be used directly from their website or by installing the Virus Total Uploader in Windows to send files directly from Windows Explorer. No Virus [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

We’ve covered a few Linux antivirus tools here on Ghacks (see “Install Avira Antivirus on Linux” or “Rescue that infected Windows drive with Trinity Rescue” or the articles covering ClamAV). All of those solutions are solid, but none of them offer the Windows-like ease of use that Bitdefender offers. Now, before you begin this journey [...]

Categories: Linux, Security, Software, Tutorials Basic

Sticking with our current theme of rescuing, we will now focus our magnifying glass another another useful Linux tool – Trinity Rescue Kit.TRK is another live Linux distribution, but with a different spin. Instead of being a live CD who’s purpose is to do just about everything, Trinity wants to really only do two things: Recover [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, Windows

In yesterday’s post (see “Scan a Windows drive for viruses using Linux“) in which I mentioned the Avira Antivir software. This piece of software is a commercial, cross-platform anti-virus solution that offers both a GUI and a command line interface. For this article we will only deal with the command line version of the tool. [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Security, Software, Tutorials Basic

Recently I came into a client who had a Windows XP machine that contained a nasty little virus that rendered the machine nearly unusable. When the machine would boot the CPU was pegging out at 100%, causing the GUI to be nearly unresponsive. I attempted to run AVG, Avast, Malwarebytes – but all for naught. [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Virus Total offers a great service for users who want to check files for malicious code. The main benefit of using Virus Total over locally installed antivirus software is the multi-engine approach as it offers to scan files with dozens of different antivirus engines and databases. The Virus Total service can be used on the [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows