Antivirus software

Antivirus software

1. Benefits

   • stops files that contain viruses from entering a computer system
   • Some antivirus software is free to download
   • if a virus is not yet known, anti virus software can monitor behaviour of files and see if they are showingany virus characteristics

2. Drawbacks

   • Needs to be continuously updated to ensure the software can lways detect new and cahnging viruses
   • Can take up a lot of memory and band width as it has to constantly scan everything on the computer
   • Can have an increasing cost each year

3. Monitors a digital system by attempting to identify and remove malicious software

4. some kinds of viruses thta this software protects against are: Trojans, worms, rootkits and sypware