UTILITY PROGRAMS

VIRUS CHECKERS:-

1. These are computer programs which identify, neutralize or eliminate malicious data.


2. virus checker detects maliciuos data (viruses) by scanning through files


3. Virus checkers Identifys suspicious behavior from any computer program which might indicate infection. Such analysis may include data captures, port monitoring and other methods.


4. Nowadays virus checkers are also installed to mobile phones.


5. Anti virus can take one of the following actions: attempt to repair the file by removing the virus itself from the file,quarantine the file or delete the infected file.

EXAMPLES OF ANTI-VIRUS:

kasperskys, AVG , McAfee