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Microsoft released its latest July Patch Tuesday updates earlier today. The company added a revocation list featuring multiple WHQL-signed Windows drivers that were actually malware.

Several Windows 11 users started experiencing random BSOD screens after installing KB5013943 update. Sophos claims the crashes were due to drivers needed by antivirus software and has released a fix.

A new Sophos study claims that Microsoft's Bing search engine has twice as many 'poison links' as Google, with image searches in particular being plagued by Blackhole exploits and malware.

Antivirus is great until something goes wrong. Today, that horror has come true for many. Sophos released an update that causes it to report any file with the word "update" to be quarantined.

The new 'Dirty Dozen' of the world's top spam-producing nations is announced - and while India has knocked the US off the top spot, a 47% reduction in its spam output sees the UK drop off the list.

Criminals on the web are usually always sneaky in their ways, in an effort to obtain certain information on people. A lot of the time its information that can lead to wiping the user’s bank...

Yesterday we wrote about why it might be a good idea to use anti-virus on your Mac; it helps prevent the spread of viruses to Windows computers. That doesn't mean that there aren't viruses on...

Earlier this month Sophos released a free version of their product for the Mac, Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition. Since then, they have been gathering data from their users. They recently released some...

Just recently, an Australian by the name of Ashley Towns released an iPhone worm into the wild, which essentially Rick-rolled the user if their phone met certainly vulnerability criteria. Now, however, Towns has managed to...

FUD - Fear, uncertainty and doubt Yesterday, a senior security advisor at Sophos, who is responsible for working with the security community and communicating information on security threats to IT professionals, posted an entry...

Computer security company Sophos has released a version of their anti-virus software, fully translated into Klingon. Yes, Klingon, the imaginary language from Star Trek. Apparently, Sophos has decided the Klingon Empire is a completely...

The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or administrator. Removing rootkits without...

SAV32CLI is a 32 bit free command line scanner used in an emergency as a disinfection utility for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003. SAV32CLI 4.16...

Available today, Sophos Mobile Security is aimed at securing PDAs and smartphones running Microsoft's current Windows Mobile 5.0 software and the 2007-planned 6.0 version. Sophos' new software is built to guard devices against infection via...

Enterprise anti-virus vendor Sophos on Aug. 23 released a free rootkit detection and removal tool alongside a warning that the stealthy malware threat is a legitimate security concern for businesses. Sophos, of Lynnfield, Mass., said...