An anti-virus program registering every executable file on the computer as infected indicates the computer may be under attack by a virus. According to PC Magazine, a virus attaches copies of itself ...

According to Lordian Mosuela, a researcher with Israel's Commtouch, the Right-to-left-override (RLO) unicode control character allows hackers to hide executable code as other types of file names. The ...

A study carried out by PandaLabs has revealed that 78 percent of new malware uses some kind of file packing to evade detection. A packer is a program used to reduce the size of an executable file, ...

Update 10/15/16: I have updated the article below to address that this ransomware is not continuously monitoring for files. When the ransomware runs it will target the %Desktop% first and then encrypt ...

A hoax e-mail warning people that their PCs may contain a virus called sulfnbk.exe tricks its victims into trashing a harmless, and potentially helpful, Windows utility. The e-mail, which was ...

Recently, our anti-virus laboratory discovered an interesting new modification of a file virus known as Expiro which targets 64-bit files for infection. File-infecting viruses are well known and have ...

When CISOs talk about polymorphic malware, they’ll remind you that polymorphism is nothing new. Known to researchers since the 1980s, this malicious code changes its attributes to make it undetectable ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 14 with a new 'FileBlockExecutable' option that lets you block the creation of malicious executables, such as EXE, DLL, and SYS files, for better protection against ...

There are many system files in a Windows computer that run in the background. These files start when you turn ON your computer. The work of these files is to manage different processes in the Windows ...

Many programs run in the background on a Windows machine. These files are crucial for the machine to function correctly. If you try to force stop any of these ...