Anti virus

Anti virus

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

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Spoofed web site

Software; Anti virus

A spoofed web site is one that mimics a real company's site—mainly financial services sites—in order to steal private information (passwords, account numbers) from people that are tricked into ...

Terminate and stay resident (TSR)

Software; Anti virus

TSR programmes stay in memory after being executed. They allow the user to quickly switch back and forth between programmes in a non-multitasking environment, such as MS-DOS. Some viruses are TSR ...

Template

Software; Anti virus

Certain applications use template files to pre-load default configurations settings. Microsoft Word uses a template called NORMAL. DOT to store information about page setup, margins, and other ...

String

Software; Anti virus

A string is a consecutive series of letters, numbers, and other characters. "afsH(*&@~" is a string; so is "The Mad Hatter. " Anti-virus applications often use specific strings, called virus ...

Stealth viruses attempt to conceal their presence from anti-virus software. Many stealth viruses intercept disk-access requests, so when an anti-virus application tries to read files or boot sectors ...

Self-encrypting virus

Software; Anti virus

Self-encrypting viruses attempt to conceal themselves from anti-virus programs. Most anti-virus programmes attempt to find viruses by looking for certain patterns of code (known as virus signatures) ...

Self-extracting files

Software; Anti virus

A self-extracting file decompresses part of itself when executed. Software authors and others often use this file type to transmit files and software via the Internet since compressed files conserve ...