Viruses operate covertly these days, hiding in the background instead of attracting attention. Luckily, there are tools to stop them.

In the years since that fateful meeting, I’ve become PCMag’s expert on security, privacy, and identity protection, putting antivirus tools, security suites, and all kinds of security software through ...

Your smartphone holds your entire life, making it a prime target for hackers and spies. Here's how to protect it.

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Third-party programs are widely used on Windows and other operating systems. But how can you tell if a program is safe to install or not? How can you be so sure that the program file you are going to ...

This is an undesirable program. This file has been identified as a program that is undesirable to have running on your computer. This consists of programs that are misleading, harmful, or undesirable.

Like other antivirus programs, Microsoft Defender will upload suspicious files to Microsoft to determine if they are malicious. However, some consider this a privacy risk and would rather have their ...

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You might want to be a little bit more careful when clicking any attachments sent to you via email, or any files that you’ve downloaded on the web from untrusted ...

A cybersecurity vendor uncovers more details about how a spyware attack exploited a serious flaw in Samsung's software for ...

Worried by recent revelations of widespread political spying? Concerned that NSO’s Pegasus spyware – which affects even up-to-date iPhones, as we explained earlier this week – might have infected your ...