Antivirus Protection Features
Computers are ubiquitous in our lives, from helping us play and work to monitoring patients in hospitals and controlling critical manufacturing processes. This convenience has a downside since more devices that use computers are targets for malicious coders.
Antivirus protection scans files and programs to identify threats, essentially acting as a real-time shield against cyberattacks. It detects infected programs and files based on their distinctive indication – two lines assembly code that replaces the stack pointer for instance and then compares them with the database of known malware software. If the program is found to match the database, the antivirus software will stop it from running and then move it to quarantine for thorough scan and analysis.
Unfortunately, malicious software creators continually create new programs that have distinctive and subtle signatures. Antivirus programs must update their databases. Once a virus has been detected and added into the detection database, hackers will find it more difficult to use the same signature on other computers.
The most reliable antivirus programs have many features that protect against the wide array of malware threats. These include: