The Anti-Malware module provides both real-time and on-demand protection against file-based threats, including threats commonly referred to as malware, viruses, Trojans, and spyware. To identify threats, Anti-Malware checks files against a comprehensive threat database, portions of which are hosted on servers or kept locally as updatable patterns. Anti-Malware also checks files for certain characteristics, such as compression and known exploit code.
To address threats, Anti-Malware selectively performs actions that contain and remove the threats while minimizing system impact. Anti-Malware can clean, delete, or quarantine malicious files. It can also terminate processes and delete other system objects that are associated with identified threats.
The Anti-Malware page has the following tabbed sections: