Sentences with phrase «match known malware»

They can also scan files regularly for unusual changes in file sizes, programs that match known malware, suspicious email attachments and other warning signs.

When your antivirus encounters a program file, it scans that file to see if it matches any known malware.

Not exact matches

When an antivirus program scans a file and notices that the file matches a known piece of malware, the antivirus program stops the file from running, putting it into «quarantine.»

For example, on Messenger, when you send a photo, our automated systems scan it using photo matching technology to detect known child exploitation imagery or when you send a link, we scan it for malware or viruses.

«For example, on Messenger, when you send a photo, our automated systems scan it using photo matching technology to detect known child exploitation imagery or when you send a link, we scan it for malware or viruses,» a Facebook Messenger spokeswoman told Bloomberg.

Like other antivirus brands, Norton has three overlapping defensive layers, starting with traditional signature matching that compares new software to a database of known malware characteristics.

The defenses start with a traditional scanner that matches the unique digital «signatures» of suspicious - looking software with those of known malware.

In every two - month round of evaluations — two on Windows 10 and two on Windows 7 — conducted in the first eight months of 2017 by German independent lab AV - TEST, Kaspersky Internet Security found and eradicated every single piece of «zero - day» malware (detected by heuristic monitoring) as well as every piece of known «widespread» malware (detected by signature matching).