How should you protect yourself? How Antivirus Works | Complete Security
Antivirus is a program that looks for viruses, Trojans, worms, backdoors and other unwanted software on the user's computer. As a rule, antiviruses are developed for the Windows OS family, which, as it were, hints at the following features of this operating system: a) high prevalence, b) great vulnerability to attacks, c) great prospects of the antivirus market due to high commercialization (and Windows is paid for in most releases OS) and d), alas, low computer literacy of its users. Antiviruses are free and paid. We will not talk in detail about the pros and cons of both categories here, I will only note that everything is not as straightforward as it might seem at first glance. If you look at the antivirus from the outside, you can easily mistake it for a virus, but only with a plus sign. Antivirus working methods - monitoring network traffic, listening on ports, monitoring services, modifying and deleting files, collecting statistics and sending data to the software developer, ...