Scan

Scan

A scan will examine files to find viruses and other potentially unwanted code.

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Industry/Domain: Internet
Category: Internet security
Company: McAfee
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scanning

Retail; Supermarkets

A process of moving items over a laser in order to record a transaction.

scanning

Weather; Meteorology

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A-scan

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A radar-screen presentation in which the horizontal time axis displays distance or range, and the vertical axis displays the amplitude of signal pulse and echo pulses.

l scan

Engineering; Electronic engineering

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M scan

Engineering; Electronic engineering

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K scan

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doxing

Internet; Internet security

Gathering and publicly posting the personal information of an internet user online. The term comes from the word "documents", as in "to post personal documents". Internet users ...

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CleanBoot disk

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Layered service providers (LSPs)

Internet; Internet security

DLLs that use Winsock APIs to insert themselves into the TCP/IP stack. Once in the stack, LSPs can intercept and modify inbound and outbound Internet traffic.