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Online Virus Scan

Posted by Martin in Online Services, Security  TAGS in Online Services, Security

1

Nov

No Virus Thanks is another web service that provides options to scan files with multiple anti-virus detection engines. It pretty much works like other web services of its kind like Virus Total by providing an upload form on the website which can be used by the user to upload a file to the service. The [...]


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Free 1 Year 3 Computer CA Anti-virus 2008 License

Posted by Martin in Security, Windows  TAGS in Security, Windows

26

May

I was not able to find a lot of test results about CA Anti-virus 2008 on the Internet (Zdnet has one that includes spyware protection, here is a second) but it seems to be a solid antivirus software, not the best and not the worst. The offer itself is interesting. You do get a free [...]


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Virus Total Uploader

Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Security, Windows, software  TAGS in Operating Systems, Security, Windows, software

14

Mar

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.


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Infected or Not: Is your PC Infected ?

Posted by Martin in Security, Spyware, The Web  TAGS in Security, Spyware, The Web

8

Dec

I’m not that fond of online virus scanners because they always need special file access privileges and scan your files which could be a privacy issue as well. Infected or Not from Panda Antivirus however catched my attention by providing interesting statistics about infected computers on a worldwide and country wide scale.


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Test your Anti-virus program

Posted by Martin in Security  TAGS in Security

1

Jan

Do you know that your anti-virus solution is working ? You could try to test your anti-virus program against the EICAR (European Expert Group for IT-Security) test file to see if it reacts the way it should. All you need to do is create the testfile and scan it with your virus scanner. If the scanner detects something it is working as intended, if it does not you should consider changing immediately to a more reliable one.


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