Virus Bulletin VB100 report, focused on fully updated Windows XP systems, shows antivirus manufacturers are giving short shrift to XP, despite its popularity If you owned an antivirus company with ...

Q: I have been reading a lot about support ending for Windows XP, but I have one unanswered question. I have Windows XP on my computer, but I am also running an anti-virus program — Avast. So why am I ...

The test sent many security software offerings through a gauntlet to measure protection, useability and performance. Three received a perfect score of 30. For those that are still operating the ...

XP Antivirus 2008, XP Antivirus 2009, and XPAntiVirus are rogue antivirus programs that, when run, display false results as a tactic to scare you into purchasing the software. Older versions of XP ...

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 ...

XP Police Antivirus is a new program that attempts to deliberately trick you into thinking you are infected. It does this by displaying security warnings from your Windows taskbar, by displaying a ...

A flawed signature update to AVG Technologies’ antivirus software over the weekend crippled some Windows XP PCs by mistakenly deleting a critical system file, the company has confirmed. According to ...

We all (hopefully) know that continuing to use Windows XP is a risky business. The operating system stopped receiving security patches from Microsoft in April 2014, which means anyone still relying on ...

AV-Test has stated that this test will probably be their last such comparison on Windows XP. The large majority of products achieved very good scores and three of the consumer products got perfect ...

A virus or worm that exploits newly revealed vulnerabilities in the current versions of Windows could emerge fairly soon, security experts say, in part because the vulnerabilities are very similar to ...

A flawed signature update to AVG Technologies‘ antivirus software over the weekend crippled some Windows XP PCs by mistakenly deleting a critical system file, the company has confirmed. According to ...

The update mistakenly quarantines the "user32.dll" file, crippling PCs; a workaround for AVE 8.0 has been released, and one for version 7.5 is forthcoming A flawed signature update to AVG Technologies ...