what is antivirus software,??
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Antivirus software is a program or set of programs that are designed to prevent, search for, detect, and remove software viruses, and other malicious software like worms, trojans, adware, and more.
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☆Antivirus software
Antivirus software is an application program which is designed to detect and remove viruses, worms and Trojan horses from a computer system. Antivirus software looks for these computer threats in all files and folders of the computer system. It looks for changes and activities in the system that are typical in the case of a virus attack. scanners that are built within the antivirus software look for a particular type of code whithin a program. If a virus is defected, the antivirus program performs one of the steps given below.
✦ It removes the virus and repairs the infected file
✦ It deletes both the virus and the infected file.
✦ If it delects an unknown virus, it quarantined (isolates) the infected file. such a file is stored in a special area called.Quarantine. files that are in Quarantine cannot interact with the rest of the system.
some of the commonly used antivirus software are Quick Heal Total Security, Avast and Norton Antivirus (NAV).