What is the Antimalware Service Executable process? The Antimalware Service Executable (its file name is MsMpEng.exe) process is Microsoft Defender's background tool that is responsible for scanning ...

The Antimalware Service Executable is a program that runs in the background on your Windows 10/11 PC to protect the computer from viruses and other threats. Sometimes it starts to consume too much ...

The QBot malware operation has started to abuse a DLL hijacking flaw in the Windows 10 WordPad program to infect computers, using the legitimate program to evade detection by security software. A DLL ...

The Cortana.exe Miner is a Trojan that uses your computer to mine for the Monero digital currency without your permission. It is not known how this particular miner Trojan is being installed, but it ...

Bogus software download sites deploy malware that weakens Windows defenses and establishes persistence in China-based ...

Researchers warn that the UEFI firmware in many motherboards made by PC hardware manufacturer Gigabyte injects executable code inside the Windows kernel in an unsafe way that can be abused by ...

An unknown miscreant is using "TerminalFix" to trick unsuspecting users into running PowerShell commands that infect their ...

Executable compression, a.k.a. "packing,” is a means of compressing an executable file and combining the compressed data with decompression code into a single executable. Throughout the years, ...

TerminalFix uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA pages to trick users into running PowerShell malware, creating reverse tunnels that ...

There are many technical tools which can help you identify and understand malware, and we used a few of these very recently while investigating Easy Disk Drive Repair. You don’t have to master all of ...

Hardly a week goes by when I’m not cleaning up someone’s computer and detecting and eradicating malware. It’s not uncommon for me to find dozens of infections, each doing its best to pester the user ...