Anti virus

Anti virus

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

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Hijacking is an attack whereby an active, established session is intercepted and used by the attacker. Hijacking can occur locally if, for example, a legitimate user leaves a computer unprotected. ...

heuristic analysis

Software; Anti virus

Heuristic analysis is behavior-based analysis of a computer program by anti-virus software to identify a potential virus. Often heuristic scanning produces false alarms when a clean program behaves ...

hacker

Software; Anti virus

A hacker is a person who creates and modifies computer software and hardware, including computer programming, administration, and security-related items. This can be done for either negative or ...

fram

Software; Anti virus

Spam forwarded to you by a family member, friend or colleague. Learn more about fram here.

firewall

Software; Anti virus

A firewall prevents computers on a network from communicating directly with external computer systems. A firewall typically consists of a computer that acts as a barrier through which all information ...

file viruses

Software; Anti virus

File viruses usually replace or attach themselves to COM and EXE files. They can also infect files with the extensions SYS, DRV, BIN, OVL, and OVY. File viruses may be resident or non-resident, the ...

file allocation table (FAT)

Software; Anti virus

Under MS-DOS, Windows 3. X, 9x, and NT (in some cases), the FAT is located in the boot sector of the disk and stores the addresses of all the files contained on a disk. Viruses and other malicious ...