virus scan

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virus scan

A sweep of a computer hard drive or an entire information system to identify and eliminate viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and any other microprocessing malware.

virus scan

Informatics A computer program that can ID code–geek speak for computer program subroutines–often found in computer viruses. See Computer virus.

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New features include virus scanning memory for active virus infections, virus scanning boot sectors for boot viruses, virus scans within archive formats ZIP, RAR, ARJ, ACE, TAR, LHA or CAB and virus scans within Outlook Express, Outlook and Netscape e-mail.