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Anti virus

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

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Browser hijacker

Software; Anti virus

A browser hijacker is a type of spyware that allows the hacker to spy on the infected PC's browsing activity, to deliver pop-up ads, to reset the browser homepage, and to redirect the browser to ...

A bot network is a network of hijacked zombie computers controlled remotely by a hacker. The hacker uses the network to send spam and launch Denial of Service attacks, and may rent the network out to ...

Boot sector infector

Software; Anti virus

A boot-sector infector virus places its starting code in the boot sector. When the computer tries to read and execute the programme in the boot sector, the virus goes into memory where it can gain ...

Boot sector

Software; Anti virus

The boot-sector is an area located on the first track of floppy discs and logical discs that contains the boot record. Boot sector usually refers to this specific sector of a floppy disk, whereas the ...

Batch files

Software; Anti virus

Batch files are text files containing one MS-DOS command on each line of the file. When run, each line executes in sequential order. The batch file AUTOEXEC. BAT is executed when the computer is ...

Bayesian philtre

Software; Anti virus

A Bayesian philtre is a programme that uses Bayesian logic (also called Bayesian analysis) to evaluate the header and content of an incoming email message to determine the probability that it ...

Cluster virus

Software; Anti virus

Cluster viruses modify the directory table entries so the virus starts before any other program. The virus code only exists in one location, but running any programme runs the virus as well. Because ...