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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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shared drive
Software; Anti virus
A shared drive is a disk drive available to other computers on the network. Shared drives use the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) to differentiate themselves from other drives. Also see: mapped ...
sparse infector
Software; Anti virus
Sparse infector viruses use conditions before infecting files. Examples include files infected only on the 10th execution or files that have a maximum size of 128kb. These viruses use the conditions ...
spam filter
Software; Anti virus
A spam filter is a program used to detect unsolicited email to prevent spam from making it to a user's inbox. Filters use heuristics, keyword scans, whitelists and blacklists, and other processes. ...
spam
Software; Anti virus
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. ...
sniffer
Software; Anti virus
A sniffer is a software program that monitors network traffic. Hackers use sniffers to capture data transmitted over a network.
slow infector
Software; Anti virus
Slow infectors are active in memory and only infect new or modified files. Also see: fast infector.
simple mail transport protocol (SMTP)
Software; Anti virus
It is the Internet email delivery format for transmitting email messages between servers.
