Anti virus

Anti virus

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

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Slow infector

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Slow infectors are active in memory and only infect new or modified files. Also see: fast infector.

Simple mail transport protocol (SMTP)

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It is the Internet email delivery format for transmitting email messages between servers.

Signature

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A signature is a search pattern—often a simple string of characters or bytes—expected to be found in every instance of a particular virus. Usually, different viruses have different signatures. ...

Shareware is software distributed for evaluation without cost, but that requires payment to the author for full rights. If, after trying the software, you do not intend to use it, you simply delete ...

Self-garbling viruses

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A self-garbling virus attempts to hide from anti-virus software by garbling its own code. When these viruses spread, they change the way they are encoded so anti-virus software cannot find them. A ...

Universal naming convention (UNC)

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This is the standard for naming network drives. For example, a UNC directory path has the following form: \\server\resource-pathname\subfolder\filename.

Tunnelling

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Tunnelling is a virus technique designed to prevent anti-virus applications from working correctly. Anti-virus programmes work by intercepting the operating system before it can execute a virus. ...