What Is An Antivirus Software | A Complete Guide To Virus Protection
what is an antivirus software?
introduction
In computer language or computational terms a antivirus software is a code/set of instruction made by some genius minds to protect our data from black hat hackers (what is the mean of the term hacker?) who could misuse userdata for their personal gain/profit.
and if i simply tell you in short , an antivirus software is a kind of software which is made up by the bunch of programs written by developers to check up our system is fully secure from all kind of viruses.
these are the set of programs which provides real-time protection by scanning files, emails, web traffic, and downloads as you use your device. and also Detects and removes malware—such as viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, ransomware—using signature-based (known threats) and heuristic/behavioral (suspicious actions) methods
how many kind of malwares(malicious software) could be harm our computer?
there are a lot of type of malwares but here is a short list of the most common ones:
summary
in short, it is said to be a security program written by experts of IT industry to protect our data from someone else's personal profit/use to harm us via some corrupted files or set of instructions as known as bugged files(programs) which has written in any programming language such as C++, java, python or javascript etc. and if you might also think that how that antivirus software protects us from these bugged files or programs. so, it basically have a bunch of codes which is use to scan our files or another files which has been transferred by someone so before let it enter in our system and spred out to every part of our system the antivirus software's layers check it or scans it. then, give us the warning that this file could be harmful for your operating system and it also scans/optimizes our whole system software on daily basis.the names of the famous/common malwares( malicious software) is trojan horses, adwares, viruses, spywares, worms, ransomewares etc.
