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<blockquote data-quote="Nico@FMA" data-source="post: 206195" data-attributes="member: 8154"><p>Well there is a thin line between Antivirus and Anti malware.</p><p>Fact is as long MBAM removes Rootkits, Trojans and other related types of Viruses and malware i personally regard Mbam as a antivirus.</p><p>And in that retrospective every antivirus out there is in fact a anti malware.</p><p>Because they BOTH do not target a specific danger but a wide range of dangers that inter cross each description.</p><p>And as such both are exactly the same.</p><p></p><p>So antivirus or antimalware is exactly the same.</p><p></p><p>Depending on how technically correct you want to be, viruses are a subset of malware, or the two words mean the same thing.</p><p></p><p>The word <em>malware</em> (malicious software) describes any piece of code designed to infect your computer (or mobile device) and make it do things that you don't want it to do, such as mass-mail spam or steal your banking passwords. Trojans, worms, and rootkits are all types of malware.</p><p></p><p>And so is a <em>virus</em>, in its most technically-correct meaning. A virus is malicious code that spreads by infecting existing files, similar to the way a biological virus spreads by infecting living cells.</p><p>Once common, true computer viruses have become quite rare as a pure standalone virus file. Criminals have found better ways to spread malicious code by adding a true virus within a seemingly legit program making it malware however in technical terms its still a virus the moments its executed.</p><p>So if true viruses are rare, why do people still talk about them? And why do we still run antivirus programs?</p><p>Viruses were the dominant form of malware in the 1980s and 90s, when personal computers were first becoming common. At that time, there was no commonly-used umbrella term such as <em>malware</em>, so people called any malicious program a<em> virus</em>.</p><p>And the word has stuck. Although that program you keep running in the background protects you (hopefully) from all forms of malware, it's called <em>antivirus </em>because that type of program has always been called <em>antivirus.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>Hence why Antivirus = Amal and Amal is Antivirus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nico@FMA, post: 206195, member: 8154"] Well there is a thin line between Antivirus and Anti malware. Fact is as long MBAM removes Rootkits, Trojans and other related types of Viruses and malware i personally regard Mbam as a antivirus. And in that retrospective every antivirus out there is in fact a anti malware. Because they BOTH do not target a specific danger but a wide range of dangers that inter cross each description. And as such both are exactly the same. So antivirus or antimalware is exactly the same. Depending on how technically correct you want to be, viruses are a subset of malware, or the two words mean the same thing. The word [I]malware[/I] (malicious software) describes any piece of code designed to infect your computer (or mobile device) and make it do things that you don't want it to do, such as mass-mail spam or steal your banking passwords. Trojans, worms, and rootkits are all types of malware. And so is a [I]virus[/I], in its most technically-correct meaning. A virus is malicious code that spreads by infecting existing files, similar to the way a biological virus spreads by infecting living cells. Once common, true computer viruses have become quite rare as a pure standalone virus file. Criminals have found better ways to spread malicious code by adding a true virus within a seemingly legit program making it malware however in technical terms its still a virus the moments its executed. So if true viruses are rare, why do people still talk about them? And why do we still run antivirus programs? Viruses were the dominant form of malware in the 1980s and 90s, when personal computers were first becoming common. At that time, there was no commonly-used umbrella term such as [I]malware[/I], so people called any malicious program a[I] virus[/I]. And the word has stuck. Although that program you keep running in the background protects you (hopefully) from all forms of malware, it's called [I]antivirus [/I]because that type of program has always been called [I]antivirus. [/I] Hence why Antivirus = Amal and Amal is Antivirus. [/QUOTE]
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