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.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
virus scan
Informatics A computer program that can ID code–geek speak for computer program subroutines–often found in computer viruses. See Computer virus.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.