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Antimalware

Antimalware

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Antimalware

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- Anti-malware is software designed to protect, prevent, and remove malicious software or malware from computer systems. Malware includes various forms of harmful software, such as viruses and worms, or polymorphic combinations of viruses and worms, trojans, remote access trojans, ransomware, root kits, spyware, and adware. Some of the benefits of anti-malware programs is it enhances security against malware threats. The newer solutions are going to give us better performance. They're more lightweight. They're not as heavy of agents as we had in the past, for example, with older antivirus programs or even host-based IDS. They provide an easy to use interface for the user or the customer experience, and they provide comprehensive protection, multiple layers of defense, real time protection, signature based, anomaly based, and behavioral based protections. The protection can be real time, often driven by a vendor or a cloud. They can go beyond just signatures to look for heuristic rules…

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