WhatsApp: New Virus Priyanka and How to Solve it.

Be very careful with the application WhatsApp and new contacts, as it has found a virus named Priyanka. The said virus renames all contacts with 'Priyanka' without the user can avoid it.

WhatsApp is one of the most used application by mobile phone users, WhatsApp, an instant messaging service that probably everyone know, so we should be alert to the application, as it was discovered a virus called 'Priyanka', and functions to change the behalf of all the contacts you have stored on your phone, without the user can avoid all the renaming Priyanka.

How this virus Priyanka works in WhatsApp? When the user receives a new chat message from a contact  name Priyanka and decide to add as a friend on your phonebook,  since the time it is added to your phonebook application, it gets started and infects all your contacts, which are now are now called Priyanka (as you can see in the picture accompanying this post), then comes the confusion and the user does not know what to do, is it or not?

How to solve this problem?

If you or one of your friend is having same problem then tell them that to protect from it, you have to be very careful and not to add any unknown contacts or if you see that something is wrong or suspicious, you should use any good anti-virus. Maybe some of you already have the virus, but it didn't stopped this virus then what can they do? First Take care of deleting the contact Priyanka, then please go to the device settings and then 'Applications', here 'force stop' WhatsApp and delete the data. Don't forget to recover your contacts from Google contacts.

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What is the Best Antivirus in Market Today?

AV Comparatives has published an article about the best antivirus ranking based primarily on the results of an extensive report, no doubt I am facing one of the biggest questions that arises when users install antivirus to protect their computer from various threats. We begin by observing the behavior of each virus against different Trojans, viruses, worms, and malware in general:

Avira 99.2%

GData 99.1%

Symantec 97.9%

McAfee Enterprise 97.8%

Avast 97.3%

TrustPort 97.2%

Kaspersky 95.1%

AVG 94.3%

ESET 93%

BitDefender 92.4%

F-Secure 91.1%

eScan 91%

Sophos 90.1%

Norman 88.5%

Microsoft 84.6%

McAfee Home 84.4%

VBA32 71.9%

Without doubt one of the most important points when deciding our antivirus. Then we will see a list of false positives, i.e. the number of times that the antivirus software wrongly identified clean, as viruses.

McAfee 1

ESET 7

F-Secure 11

Symantec 12

eScan 14

Avira 17

Norman 19

AVG 21

BitDefender 27

Kaspersky 28

TrustPort 30

VBA32 46

Avast 47

GData 62

Sophos 117

By the time that best match according to these statistics are Avira, Symantec and McAfee. Finally, we will provide the list considering the scanning speed in MB per second :

Symantec 22.2

Sophos 17.1

AVG 16.5

ESET 15.2

McAfee 14.7

Avira 14.7

Kaspersky 13.9

Norman 11.4

BitDefender 11.1

GData 10.8

Avast 9.8

Microsoft 8.8

F-Secure 7.6

TrustPort 4.7

eScan 4.4

VBA32 2.9

Undoubtedly Symantec results are really good about this, but taking into account the three statistics, Avira, Symantec and McAfee antivirus are the best current according to these results.

Link: AV Comparitives

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Top 5 Antivirus Softwares | List of Best Antivirus Softwares For PC

Hello there! Most of you are quite confused with which Antivirus software to use for your PC security. Here i come with something that may reduce your confusion and you can select a best AntiVirus to protect your PCs, Laptops etc. Most of the Antivirus softwares come with following testing certifies:

• ICSA Certified
• VB100% Certified
• W.C.L Level 1 Certified
• W.C.L Level 2 Certified

01. Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Personally, i am using this antivirus and i must say this is the best till date.  Kaspersky Antivirus often treated as the best available Antivirus application and has a special version for file servers. Kaspersky has different types of versions and different types of softwares, you can chose any of them according to your need. It covers almost all sections needed for a top class security. Kaspersky provides hourly virus definition update to keep you up-to-date so that your anti-virus will be always alert against all the types of threats.

02. BitDefender Antivirus

BitDefender is one of the best antivirus with top class defending ability. It provides hourly definition updates for latest threats. BitDefender comes with P2P File Sharing and Registry Startup Protection but lacks Email scanning.

03. Trend Micro

Trend Micro is a well-known and popular antivirus with Spyware and Adware Protection. It has some great features including Remote File Lock that safeguards your private files in case your laptop is lost or stolen. But lacks P2P File Sharing and Registry Startup Scanning.

04. Norton Antivirus/ Internet Security

Norton Antivirus is one of the most popular and well-known antivirus application. The latest version has the ability to map your wireless home network and safeguards your wi-fi networks. Recently Norton has introduced a special version for gaming PCs known as Norton 2009 Gaming Edition. It comes with daily virus definition update but no support for P2P File Sharing and Registry Startup Protection.

05. McAfee Antivirus

McAfee is one of the leading antivirus in security industry. McAfee introduced 2 features ScriptStopper and WormStopper. But it has no support for P2P File Sharing, Instant Messenger and Registry Startup. The inbuilt updater updates virus definitions on a regular basis to keep your up-to-date.

This list is of my own, but these are some of the best AntiViruses available. You can try one of them to secure your PC from dangerous threats and viruses like trojan.

Feel free to comment if you think the list should be Re-Sorted. 

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