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 ...

Microsoft today backpedaled from earlier decisions and said it would extend a limited helping hand to Windows XP users by them offering antivirus signatures for Security Essentials for more than a ...

If you're using the computer that runs Windows XP, you know that Microsoft is ending support for the operating system as of April 2014. Microsoft has been pushing hard to get users to upgrade to a new ...

Avast said that once April 8 rolls around, a quarter of its users will be left vulnerable to higher risk of attack. With less than three weeks to go until Microsoft officially stops supporting Windows ...

As you might be aware Microsoft support for Windows XP expires today, which means that the company will stop issuing security patches. Around 30 percent of you have ignored all warnings up until now ...

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 ...

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab is having a very poor start to the week. Thousands of Windows XP machines were cut off from the Internet late last night after an antivirus update crippled Internet ...

Customers were not happy after security firm Symantec made a recent update to its antivirus software, causing some Windows-based PCs to crash repeatedly, showing a dreadful "blue screen of death" in ...

Earlier this month, the FTC managed to shut down scareware that tricked 1 million users with names such as WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, ErrorSafe, and XP Antivirus. That doesn’t mean ...

Put together an anti-virus update, new-fangled encryption technology and a 11-year-old operating system, and what do you get? Security giant Symantec admitted July 13 that updates pushed out 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 ...