antivirus

Antirun: Protect your PC from Virus Infected Removable Media Devices

August 31, 2011
Antirun: Protect your PC from Virus Infected Removable Media Devices

Most of the times it is the USB and flash drives that are the main carriers of viruses in PCs, we normally plug them in our PCs without first scanning them for malicious programs and viruses. But today I will be reviewing an application that will very much solve this problem of virus influx via [...]

5 Free Antivirus Software Downloads

February 28, 2011
5 Free Antivirus Software Downloads

This is a guest post by Juan who blogs at FreeAvdownload. If you would like to write for CallingAllGeeks, check our adsense revenue sharing program. Many times you want to scan your computer for any nasty programs that might have gotten in through your many daily activities such as downloading email attachments or stumbling upon [...]

Avast 6 Released and Available for Free Download

February 27, 2011
Avast 6 Released and Available for Free Download

After a long waiting time the strong security suite of Avast has been released and you can download it free from Avast official website. I am a big fan of Avast Antivirus as I have compared it with the most popular paid Antivirus programs such as Kaspersky,Quick Heal,AVG,Norton etc but finally I stick to Avast [...]

Use EICAR Test String to find Antivirus Effectiveness

December 23, 2010
Use EICAR Test String to find Antivirus Effectiveness

When ever you will search for best antivirus on Google, you will be bombarded with tons of options. Most of ant viruses company will claim that your system is infected with viruses and your current Anti-virus program is ineffective to detect viruses and spywares on your system. Here I’m sharing a quick tip which will [...]

NetQin Mobile Antivirus: Unbeatable Security System for Symbian OS

November 21, 2010
NetQin Mobile Antivirus: Unbeatable Security System for Symbian OS

Symbian OS is often attacked by malwares and if your Symbian phone once infected then it may lead your phone to formatting. If you are using internet or using external memory in your Symbian phone then there many chances of infections. So you must have use a mobile antivirus to protect your mobiles OS. Most [...]

Boost PC Security With Boot Scan Enabled Antivirus Programs

November 6, 2010
Boost PC Security With Boot Scan Enabled Antivirus Programs

Need of Boot scan Boot time scan is run before starting any pc application by an Antivirus software. Some time our PC gets infected by a threat due to our own mistake such as if we disable real-time Antivirus protection or our Antivirus is unable to detect threat due to outdated virus definitions. In some [...]

Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a: First Android Trojan Virus

August 11, 2010
Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a: First Android Trojan Virus

Seems like Android is being hit by First Trojan virus named Trojan- SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a. As reported by Kaspersky team “The new malicious program penetrates smart phones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player application. Users are prompted to install a file of just over 13 KB with the standard Android extension .APK. Once [...]