Microsoft announced increased capability coming to the Windows 10 built-in malware protection service Windows Defender. The new abilities will be labeled Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection and will be available this year. While Windows Defender can protect a single machine, it is not very useful in the enterprise environment as it lacks central reporting and … [Read more...]
ESET antivirus false positive blocks website access
ESET experienced a false positive this morning. It was falsely identifying various websites as Javascript or HTML threats. The definition database, version 13102, was pushed out and expanded JS/ScrInject.B trojan and HTML/Refresh.BC trojan to include the false positives. ESET wrote up the experience in Alert5879 and have since deployed an updated virus signature database … [Read more...]
BrowserAddonsView shows you all browser extensions, plugins, toolbars
Software developer NirSoft released a new utility today. Titled BrowserAddonsView, the utility is very useful for analyzing a computer quickly for browser addons such as extensions, plugins, toolbars, and ActiveX components. This puts all of this information in one location. It could be very helpful for malware clean-up to ensure that there are no remnants left behind in the … [Read more...]
Microsoft recalls KB3114717 after Word, Excel, Outlook 2013 freeze following February 2016 Patch Tuesday
From Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday earlier this week, Microsoft has recalled KB3114717, an optional update for Office 2013. The patch was recalled following reports of Word, Outlook, and Excel 2013 freezing up on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 computers following the update. One CPU core would spike to 100% and make it impossible to edit the document. As Microsoft … [Read more...]
AV-Test announces 2015 antivirus product awards
AV-Test, an independent institute that evaluates antivirus products, has awarded their 2015 best product awards. Twelve awards were presented across different categories such as Protection, Performance, Usability, Repair, and Android Security. The awards are based on the laboratory tests performed on the products throughout 2015. You can learn more about the awards and … [Read more...]