Realizing that your computer is infected with a virus can be a heart-stopping moment, but there's no need to panic. Viruses or other malware can have a devastating effect on your PC, slowing its ...

Macs are more protected from malicious software like viruses, Trojans, adware, etc. than Windows and Linux. However, they aren’t immune, and more and more malware is being designed specifically for ...

There’s no shortage of good antiviral tools for the macOS these days, and Bitdefender Virus Scanner stands as one of a growing catalog of tools that can help prevent and clear out malware on your Mac, ...

Antivirus software is not free of errors and sometimes reports computer viruses where there are none. For this reason, the company Procolored, a manufacturer of textile printers, indignantly defended ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Anti-virus software has been around in its modern form since 1987, and, as Lifewire notes ...

Think twice before you click on that link—even if it was sent to you by a friend or family member. Simply put, a computer virus is a program that you did not install which often performs malicious ...

Discovering that a virus has infected your systems is never a pleasant experience. Some malware programs are easy to remove, and require only a few minutes to clean your servers and restore normal ...

An anti-virus program crashing during a scan adds insult to injury: you're already trying to do right by removing malware infections. There's no stand-out cause for crashing during a virus scan; while ...

The virus scanner ClamAV is set to become significantly leaner again. Developers are reducing virus signatures, which noticeably reduces the size of the database. In addition, old Docker images are ...