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- Meaning of Anti-Virus
- Anti-virus Software Preventive Measure
Like the human body, a PC is vulnerable to infection by viruses. These software viruses, like their organic counterpart, can produce a variety of symptoms in their hosts, while some computer viruses can multiply without causing obvious problems; others cause malicious problems, which might cause the system to hang. In extreme cases, files and even entire hard disks, or data on the flash disk, can be wiped out because of a virus infection.
What is an Anti-Virus program?
It is a computer program written to scan a computer’s memory, or mass storage devices, for destructive and harmful programs, otherwise known as viruses, that attach themselves to executable programs.
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