What is Anti-Malware?
Anti-Malware and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Anti-malware is a more modern and all-inclusive term to replace antivirus. However, some claim that anti-malware will potentially detect a wider range of malicious code and potentially unwanted applications (PUA) than that of traditional AV.
Intro
In the early days of PC use, threats were limited: most home users were not connected to the Internet 24/7 through broadband connections, and the most common threat was a virus passed from computer to computer via an infected floppy disk (much like the medical definition, a computer virus is something that can infect the host and replicate itself). But things have changed dramatically since those early days, and current threats pose a much greater risk than ever before. Automated probes from botnets and worms are not the only threats roaming the Internet — there are viruses and malware spread by e-mail, phishing, infected websites that execute code on your system when you visit them, adware, spyware, and so on.
Anti-Malware
Antimalware is the name of a product designed to protect your machine from malicious software or malware. Today, most anti-malware solutions are combined with antivirus solutions into a single product. Fortunately, as the threats increase in…
