Sometimes you do not want to or cannot install another security software on your computer system to scan for malware. Maybe you do not have the rights to install software on the computer or you have a program installed and do not want to risk incompatibilities. The alternative is an application like F-Secure’s Online Scanner [...]

Categories: Online Services, Security, Spyware

Keeping software and the operating system up to date is a dead given for expert computer users and part of their computer maintenance schedule. These users know how to check for updates and install them as soon as they are released on their systems to protect the system from exploits. Inexperienced users on the other [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Scanning the computer from an online location provides several advantages over the classic local scan. The most prominent one is that the risk of a virus infection of the virus scanner is not present and that the engine used by the scanner is usually up to date. A local virus scanner needs to be updated [...]

Categories: Security, The Web, Tools

Virus Total is one of the many services that let you upload files to their server which are then scanned for viruses and malware. One major advantage of Virus Total over a single antivirus solution installed on the user’s pc is the fact that it uses almost every known antivirus engine to scan the files which could not be done on a single system because those applications would surely interfere with each other.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Software, Windows