Anti virus

Anti virus

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

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Spam is unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages. There is email spam, instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, web search-engine spam, spam in blogs, and mobile phone-messaging spam. ...

Warm boot

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Warm booting is restarting a computer without first turning off the power. Using CTL+ALT+DEL or the reset button on many computers can warm boot a machine. Also see: cold boot, reset.

Visual basic script (VBS)

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Visual Basic Script is a programming language that can invoke any system function--including starting, using and shutting down other applications without--user knowledge. VBS programmes can be ...

Virus hoaxes

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Virus hoaxes are not viruses, but are usually emails warning people about a virus or other malicious software program. Some hoaxes cause as much trouble as viruses by causing massive amounts of ...

Virus

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A virus is a computer programme file capable of attaching to discs or other files and replicating itself repeatedly, typically without user knowledge or permission. Some viruses attach to files so ...

Variant

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A variant is a modified version of a virus. It is usually produced on purpose by the virus author or another person amending the virus code. If changes to the original are small, most anti-virus ...

Vaccination

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Vaccination is a technique some anti-virus programmes use to store information about files in order to notify the user about file changes. Internal vaccines store the information within the file ...