Bitdefender Antivirus Pro 2011

BitDefender Antivirus Pro 2011
system. The malware can affect your system only if the infected file is extracted
from the archive and executed without having real-time protection enabled.
● Action options. If you consider changing the actions taken on detected files,
check for tips in “Changing the Actions Taken on Detected Files” (p. 56).
● Scan options for e-mail, web and instant messaging traffic. To prevent
malware from being downloaded to your computer, BitDefender automatically
scans the following malware entry points:
▶ incoming e-mails
▶ web traffic
▶ files received via Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger
Scanning the web traffic may slow down web browsing a little, but it will block
malware coming from the Internet, including drive-by downloads.
Though not recommended, you can disable e-mail, web or instant messaging
antivirus scan to increase system performance. If you disable the corresponding
scan options, the e-mails and files received or downloaded from the Internet will
not be scanned, thus allowing infected files to be saved to your computer. This
is not a major threat because real-time protection will block the malware when
the infected files are accessed (opened, moved, copied or executed).
15.1.3. Changing the Actions Taken on Detected Files
Files detected by real-time protection are grouped into two categories:
● Infected files. Files detected as infected match a malware signature in the
BitDefender Malware Signature Database. BitDefender can normally remove the
malware code from an infected file and reconstruct the original file. This operation
is known as disinfection.
Note
Malware signatures are snippets of code extracted from actual malware samples.
They are used by antivirus programs to perform pattern-matching and detect
malware.
The BitDefender Malware Signature Database is a collection of malware signatures
updated hourly by the BitDefender malware researchers.
● Suspicious files. Files are detected as suspicious by the heuristic analysis.
Suspicious files cannot be disinfected, because no disinfection routine is available.
Depending on the type of detected file, the following actions are taken automatically:
● If an infected file is detected, BitDefender will automatically attempt to disinfect
it. If disinfection fails, the file is moved to quarantine in order to contain the
infection.
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