Virus removal tools can be standalone one-time scanners or built into full antivirus software. They scan your system for malicious files and remove them. Standalone tools are great as a second opinion ...

Microsoft offers a number of free anti-malware tools. Windows 10 and 8.1 users have Windows Defender. Windows 7 users can chose between the full-featured Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) or the ...

Do you suspect your computer is infected with malicious software? In this guide, we'll show you how to deal with this problem quickly. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This post lists the best free Adware Removal Tool for Windows 11/10 PC. Adware is a type of malware that displays unwanted advertisements on a computer, including pop-up ads, banners, and in-text ads, ...

Malicious Software Removal Tool (MRT.exe) from Microsoft comes built-in with Windows operating system. This is a free tool that doesn’t give real-time protection but automatically scans for and ...

Q: I use both the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool and Microsoft Windows Defender. What's the difference between them? Are they both necessary? A: The Malicious Software Removal Tool is a ...

I’m smart enough to engineer a trip to Honolulu a couple of times a year — but somehow, with only a couple of weeks to go till I get to paradise, I wind up in Chelmsford, Mass., where the temperature ...

We have reported on the Zotob worm and it's variants several times in the past couple of days, so I am sure all of you are well informed about what it is, and how to fix it. For those not in the know ...

Enterprise anti-virus vendor Sophos on Aug. 23 released a free rootkit detection and removal tool alongside a warning that the stealthy malware threat is a legitimate security concern for businesses.

Note: This mystery has been solved. See the July 15th update at the bottom. July 9th was patch Tuesday and I dutifully ran Windows Update on a few PCs. I thought perhaps that the Windows Malicious ...