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I’m a well established software company. For more than 30 years, my business has been delivering both hardware and software.
My Windows software is being quarantined by some of my customer’s antivirus.
How I handle it, up to now, is that… Continue reading As a Software Industry Editor, how to avoid my software being quarantined?
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been sweeping across the globe now for three months. In that time it has encountered little resistance in its advances, being a novel virus with just the right mix of transmissibility …read more
As the COVID-19 pandemic invades in some way every corner of life, we’ve seen significant effort from the hardware community in considering the problem of inadequate supplies of medical equipment. The pandemic and its associated quarantine and lockdowns do not stop at medical supplies though, a whole host of problems …read more
Continue reading Hack The Quarantine, Not Just The Medical Equipment
The government says the wristband isn’t privacy-invading because it won’t track your location, per se; just if you wander from COVID-19 quarantine. Continue reading Location-tracking wristbands required on all incoming travelers to Hong Kong
There is a file found by antivirus program and it was put into the virus’ quarantine section (its not a false positive). Now I don’t know how to handle this “quarantined” files.
What is the best practice and secure way to deal with them… Continue reading How to remove quarantined virus securely?
The news this week was dominated by the novel coronavirus outbreak centered in Wuhan, China. Despite draconian quarantines and international travel restrictions, the infection has spread far beyond China, at least in small numbers. A few cases have been reported in the United States, but the first case reported here …read more
I’ve recently written a simple keylogger using classic DLL-injection technique. I wanted to simulate a real phishing attack where the user opens an Office document with macros and by enabling them he downloads and runs my keylogger. While … Continue reading Bypassing Windows Defender VBA custom code
I’m writing an antivirus in python mostly to learn and for research purposes, I do understand it would be more efficient to do this in something like C and eventually I will port this over. So far I have coded the first part … Continue reading Python Antivirus comparing hashes [on hold]
This morning I booted up my computer and not long afterward, got a notification from ByteFence (unsubscribed) that an unknown process attempted to execute a command that was deemed unwanted. ByteFence gives me the option to i… Continue reading Unknown process attempted to execute code
Say my host machine is infected and I have a sandbox program. Will that sandbox environment then be infected also?
If the answer is yes, what if I have an AV running inside of the sandbox. Will it allow for a safe sandbox e… Continue reading If a host is infected is the sandbox environment infected?