What is an Antivirus?
HISTORY OF ANTIVIRUS The virus originated as a simple tool whose objective was to detect and eliminate computer viruses during the 1980's. Over time, the emergence of more advanced operating systems and Internet, antivirus programs have evolved into more advanced who not only want to detect a computer virus, but lock it to prevent infection by the same, and now and are able to recognize other types of malware such as spyware, rootkits, etc.. Running a virus varies from one to another, although their normal behavior is based on having a list of known viruses and to recognize shapes (called signatures or vaccines), and analyzed against that list the files stored or transmitted to and to a computer. Additionally, many current anti-virus detection functions have been incorporated proactive, not are based on a list of known malware, but that analyze the behavior of files or communications to detect which are potentially harmful to the computer, using techniques such...