Top "Antivirus" questions

Antivirus or anti-virus software is software used to prevent, detect and remove malware.

Where do I get a list of all known viruses signatures?

I have written some antivirus software in Python, but am unable to find virus signatures. The software works by dumping …

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Slowdown of Microsoft Visual Studio due to different Virus scanner

What is the least slow Virus scanner to use with Microsoft Visual Studio I have just had Microsoft Visual Studio “…

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How to be sure ClamAV database is up to date?

I am currently having an issue with ClamAV and freshclam on Centos 6.9. I have the last Clam engine 0.99.2, and a …

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How does a Windows antivirus hook into the file access process?

The subject says it all. A normal antivirus has to intercept all file accesses, scan the files and then optionally …

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Decompiling EXE to ASM

I want to make a basic antivirus for my free time. Basically I learned about the basic structure of the …

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How to pass the Windows Defender SmartScreen Protection?

I am trying to prevent that my application (an installer) will not be blocked by Windows SmartScreen Protection. I use …

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In-memory scanning of files, ideally using ClamAV

We are implementing an enterprise application with a heavy focus on security, which includes the uploading of files. These files …

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Detecting anti-virus on Windows with WMI - which namespace?

I am coding a antivirus detection code and the WMI namespace differs in some cases as Win7 supports "\root\SecurityCenter2" …

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My C# program is detected as a virus?

I have created a C# program and I recently noticed that when I merge my referenced .dlls into one executable .…

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Antivirus False positive in my executable

I just ran into an annoying problem. Suddenly Avira AntiVir started to flag one executable from my software as being …

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