virus scanner

collocation in English

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virus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvaɪə.rəs/us
/ˈvaɪ.rəs/
an extremely small piece of organic material that causes disease in humans, animals, ...
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scanner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈskæn.ər/us
/ˈskæn.ɚ/
a device for making images of the inside of the body or for reading information into a ...
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(Definition ofvirusandscannerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvirus scanner

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After, one should restart their computer in safe mode and run avirusscanner, which will most likely detect the virus.
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A compliantvirusscanner, when detecting the file, will respond in exactly the same manner as if it found a harmful virus.
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One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side emailvirusscanner.
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Its signature doesn't match the one declare in thevirusscanner.
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Not all virus scanners are compliant, and may not detect the file even when they are correctly configured.
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Also, some older virus scanners simply report all compressed executables as viruses because the decompressor stubs share some characteristics with those.
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Part of the success, of course, was that people were not at all wary of the potential problem, nor were virus scanners or cleaners available.
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So, both of the virus scanners and the users are responsible of the security and the integrity of the documents/computer.
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Independent testing on all the major virus scanners consistently shows that none provide 100% virus detection.
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Many virus scanners produce false positive results as well, identifying benign files as malware.
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Some new viruses, particularly ransomware, use polymorphic code to avoid detection by virus scanners.
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