Software designed to protect and remove, if possible, viruses from a computer.
A program designed to identify, quarantine, and/or delete viruses from your computer.
Software that protects your computer from viruses and removes viruses that do get onto your computer. They also remove Trojan Horses and adware.
Computer programs that offer protection from viruses by making additional checks of the integrity of the operating system and electronic files. Also known as virus protection software
Detects and removes computer viruses.
software tools that scan for known viruses and take action to disarm and/or remove them. Such tools should be included as part of the computing systems environment that the web services are delivered from.
A program designed to identify, quarantine, and/or remove a virus from your computer.
Applications that detect, prevent and possibly remove all known viruses from files located in a microcomputer hard drive
Definition: Computer programs that detect and remove computer viruses.
A computer program that examines incoming files for viruses, and scans acomputer's memory and mass storage to identify, isolate and eliminatethem.
antivirus software (AV) - A computer program designed to detect and respond to malicious software, such as viruses and worms. Responses may include blocking user access to infected files, cleaning infected files or systems, or informing the user that an infected program was detected.
A computer program designed to detect and respond to malicious software, such as viruses and worms. An antivirus program may respond by blocking access to infected files, cleaning infected files or systems, or informing the user that it has detected an infected program or file.
Software written specifically to combat harmful viruses. Anti-Virus software seeks and removes viruses from your computer. Norton AntiVirus and McAfee VirusScan are two popular Anti-Virus programs.
These are programs to detect and remove computer viruses. The simplest will scan executable files and block a list of known viruses. Others are constantly active to detect viruses and find out what they are doing. Antivirus software should always include a regular update service to detect the latest viruses as they are released. For more information visit our Antivirus section.
Antivirus software consists of computer programs that attempt to identify, thwart and eliminate computer viruses and other malicious software (malware).