My wife and I have a pair of machines on our home network, hers is running xp sp3 32bit flavor and mine is running XP64 bit.She generally uses Firefox or Opera for browsing, and is using AVG virus ...

The latest ClickFix attack creates a fake, full-screen Windows OS update through the browser to try and dupe the user into ...

McAfee, to say the least, had its fair share of problems Wednesday when a buggy antivirus software update caused computers running Windows XP to shut down and experience serial reboots. An initial ...

A faulty antivirus software update distributed by McAfee Inc. this month mistakenly identified hundreds of legitimate programs as a Windows virus — a mix-up that led some unsuspecting corporate users ...

MRT.exe stands for Malicious Software Removal Tool. It’s a free Microsoft tool designed to scan for and remove malware from ...

Some PC users have reported cases whereby the Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus fails to work on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer and in Windows Security app. Under ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Every day when I turn my computer on, Windows says I need to update virus protection under security. But, it ...

The latest virus-definition update for Network Associates Inc.’s McAfee VirusScan can freeze computer systems, the company has confirmed. The problem occurs when virus definition file 4102, which was ...

Microsoft confirmed an issue that could trigger BitLocker Recovery on Windows 11 25H2, 24H2 and even Windows 10.

Windows 10 is officially dead to Microsoft come October 14. Microsoft had said you'd need to cough up $30 to a year to add another year of security updates. But now there's a way to keep your install ...

Windows Defender has been available as a built-in antivirus for Windows 10 and earlier for several years now. The antivirus has grown quite popular with Windows users thanks to being lightweight and ...