Anti virus

Anti virus

Software applications for preventing, detecting, and removing malware, including computer viruses, worms, and trojan horses.

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Armoured virus

Software; Anti virus

An armoured virus tries to prevent analysts from examining its code. The virus may use various methods to make tracing, disassembling, and reverse engineering its code more difficult.

Anti-virus software scans a computer's memory and disc drives for viruses. If it finds a virus, the application informs the user and may clean, delete, or quarantine any files, directories, or discs ...

Background task

Software; Anti virus

A background task is a task executed by the system that generally remains invisible to the user. The system usually assigns background tasks a lower priority than foreground tasks. Some malicious ...

Back orifice

Software; Anti virus

Back Orifice is a programme developed and released by The Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc). It is not a virus; instead, it is a remote administration tool with the potential for malicious misuse. If ...

Backup

Software; Anti virus

N. A backup is a duplicate copy of data made for archiving purposes or for protection against damage and loss. V. A backup is also the process of creating duplicate data. Some programmes back up data ...

Background scanning

Software; Anti virus

Background scanning is a feature in some anti-virus software to automatically scan files and documents as they are created, opened, closed, or executed.

Back door

Software; Anti virus

A back door is a feature programmers often build into programmes to allow special privileges normally denied to users of the program. Often programmers build back doors so they can fix bugs. If ...