Anti virus

Anti virus

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

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Attack

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An attack is an attempt to subvert or bypass a system's security. Attacks may be passive or active. Active attacks attempt to alter or destroy data. Passive attacks try to intercept or read data ...

Anti-antivirus virus

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Anti-antivirus viruses attack, disable, or infect specific anti-virus software. Also see: retrovirus.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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Refers to a coding system that assigns numerical values to characters such as letters, numbers, punctuation, and other symbols. Basic ASCII allows only 7 bits per character (for a total of 128 ...

Algorithm

Software; Anti virus

An algorithm is a sequence of steps needed to solve logical or mathematical problems. Certain cryptographic algorithms are used to encrypt or decrypt data files and messages and to sign documents ...

Fast infector viruses, when active in memory, infect not only executed programs, but also other programmes that are open at the same time. Thus, running an application, such as anti-virus software, ...

Dropper

Software; Anti virus

A dropper is a carrier file that instals a virus on a computer system. Virus authors often use droppers to shield their viruses from anti-virus software. The term injector often refers to a dropper ...

False positive

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A false positive error occurs when anti-virus software wrongly claims that a virus is infecting a clean file. False positives usually occur when the string chosen for a given virus signature is also ...