Anti Virus Software
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Anti-virus software consists of computer programs that attempt to identify, thwart and eliminate computer viruses and other malicious software (malware).
Anti-virus software typically uses two different techniques to accomplish this:
Examining (scanning) files to look for known viruses matching definitions in a virus dictionary
Identifying suspicious behavior from any computer program which might indicate infection. Such analysis may include data captures, port monitoring and other methods.
Most commercial anti-virus software uses both of these approaches, with an emphasis on the virus dictionary approach.
Historically, the term anti-virus has also been used for benign computer viruses that spread and combated malicious viruses. This was common on the Amiga computer platform.