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Understanding Anti-Virus Software

What does anti-virus software do? Although details may vary between packages, anti-virus software scans files or your computer's memory for certain patterns that may indicate an infection. The patterns it looks for are based on the signatures, or definitions, of known viruses. Virus authors are continually releasing new and updated viruses, so it is important that you have the latest definitions installed on your computer. Once you have installed an anti-virus package, you should scan your entire computer periodically. Automatic scans - Depending what software you choose, you may be able to configure it to automatically scan specific files or directories and prompt you at set intervals to perform complete scans. Manual scans - It is also a good idea to manually scan files you receive from an outside source before opening them. This includes saving and scanning email attachments or web downloads rather than selecting the option to open them directly from the source scanning media, i...

What is Virus, Malware, & Trojan???

What is a Virus? A computer virus is a computer software program – that has the unfortunate ability to replicate. Like natural viruses, PC computer system viruses can move fast and are extremely difficult to destroy. They can grab a hold of any type of computer file and are move as fast as the files that are duplicated and transferred from individual computer to individual computer. What is Malware? Malware – also know as malicious – refers to any malicious program or unexpected malware program or computer code file such as Trojans, pest, and droppers. Not every malware or malicious software programs or codes are pest. Pest, are perhaps the majority of all known malware or malicious code to date including trojans and worms. The other major types of malicious code are droppers, Trojans, and kits. What is a Trojan? A Trojan is malware or malicious code that performs unpredicted or unauthorized, often malicious, procedures. The most important distinction between a pest and a Trojan is th...

Windows Workflow Foundation

>>Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a Microsoft technology for defining, executing, and managing workflows . This technology is part of .NET Framework 3.0 which is available natively in the Windows Vista operating system, and can be installed on the Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Authoring Workflows A new XML -based language XAML is commonly used for declaring the structure of a workflow. However, the workflow may also be expressed in code using any .NET-targeted language ( VB.NET , C# , C++/CLI , etc.). Workflows comprise 'activities'. Developers can write their own domain-specific activities and then use them in workflows. WF also provides a set of general-purpose 'activities' that cover several control flow constructs. Windows Workflow Foundation is supported by a companion set of extensions to Visual Studio 2005. These extensions contain a visual workflow designer which allows users to design workflows, a visual debugger wh...