Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, advanced persistent threat (APT), and botnet DDoS attacks.
In particular, modern antivirus software can protect users from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious LSPs, dialers, fraud tools, adware, and spyware. However, with the proliferation of other malware, antivirus software started to protect from other computer threats.
Security information and event management (SIEM)ĬlamTk, an open source antivirus based on the ClamAV antivirus engine, originally developed by Tomasz Kojm in 2001Īntivirus software, or antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware.Īntivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name.
