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#13 What is Antivirus Program why it is used ?

 INTRODUCTION

• Antivirus software is a type of program designed and developed to protect

computers from malware like viruses, computer worms, spyware, botnets,
rootkits, key loggers and such. Antivirus programs function to scan, detect
and remove viruses from your computer.

• There is some Free Antivirus which are Freely Available which are
totally Worthless they provide Security just by name only actually they
are spy software's which are spying your system only.
 What is Antivirus Program?

Antivirus Software is a computer program that identify and remove computer viruses, and
other malicious software like Worms and Trojans from an infected computer. Not only this,
an antivirus software also protects the computer from further virus attacks.

The first anti-virus software in 1987. Fix, a German astrophysicist and amateur computer
programmer developed software to combat the first computer virus “in the wild," which
means that the virus had escaped the confines of the lab or network .
 How an Antivirus works ?

An Antivirus works Using dictionary Approach The antivirus software examines

each and every file in a computer and examines its content with the virus
definitions stored in its virus dictionary. A virus dictionary is an inbuilt file
belonging to an antivirus software that contains code identified as a virus by the
antivirus authors.
 Symptoms of Infected computer
1. Unexpected pop-up windows
2. Slow start up and slow performance
3. Suspicious hard drive activity
4. Lack of storage space
5. Missing files
6. Crashes and error messages
7. High network activity
8. Email is hijacked
9. Security attacks
10. Background Data Processing
Some popular Antivirus:
Hope Guys You got the point of the Video