Tag Archives: Anti-virus

How Viruses fool antivirus software

August 26, 2008 – 5:54 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Software | Also tagged , | Comments (1)

Computer Viruses are programs which can copy it and infect the computer and other programs. Virus authors and antivirus software try to defeat each other. Here are some of the ways viruses use to defeat antivirus software Read More »

Antivirus protection methods – Pros and Cons

July 8, 2008 – 8:06 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Software | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Anti-virus software is a computer program that works to keep computer free from virus and other malicious programs. There are multiple approaches, antivirus software use to identify viruses.

Dictionary method –In this method Anti virus program continue to match programs with the pre-identified virus definitions and then take appropriate option (quarantine or delete the infected file). New viruses are included in the dictionary as identified. Success of this method is based on how quickly new threats are identified and included in the dictionary. Read More »