1. Computer Protection
(Learn/Antivirus)

... can execute. Some cheap and free antivirus programs do not have this, and as a consequence are near worthless, because without a real-time scanner, viruses can operate for hours without detection. All ...

2. What to Protect
(Learn/Antivirus)

... don't scanning within archives, to save CPU time. As for the heuristic for real-time detection, we can't make any general recommendations here, except to go with the default the software provides. Be ...

3. About Worms
(Learn/Antivirus)

... for fun, by bored programmers. Often they'd be contests to see how small they could be, or how tricky they could avoid detection by antivirus. There were actual toolkits to produce viruses that would guide ...