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ClamXAV wraps the venerable, open source ClamAntiVirus engine in a straightforward user interface that sticks to the basics of malware protection. While it doesn’t appear in the latest lab reports, it has earned excellent scores in the recent past.

Phone and email scammers are running rampant. In this edition of SecurityWatch, we analyze some real-life phishing lures and tell you how to stop scammers in their tracks.

The Kanary finds your personal information on data broker websites and offers to remove it. Be careful, as it also finds pages that can't or shouldn't be removed.

It just scans a device and detects malware (and obfuscation techniques) with 99.82% accuracy.

CleanMyMac boasts a colorful, cheerful user interface and a wide range of tools to clean and tune your Mac. However, it lacks some features found in almost all competitors, the independent labs don't vouch for it, and the product's limitations meant we couldn't apply our usual hands-on tests.

NortonLifeLock acquired Avira over a year ago, so it's not exactly a surprise.

Avanan reports that attackers are once again using Google Docs comments to impersonate other people while they send malicious links to their victims.

Though it's disabled by default, Norton Crypto is difficult to fully delete.

Internet users in the United States rank first for data breaches. In this edition of SecurityWatch, we tell you what to do if your information winds up in someone else's possession.

In issuing the warning, the FTC cites the huge settlement Equifax paid for a 2017 data breach involving a known vulnerability it failed to patch.