To protect points from cyber threats anti-virus anti-malware and personal firewalls can be used.
Here we are in the lab PC I downloaded AVAST free anti-virus just to show you some of the components
that make up an anti-virus software solution typically or anti-virus software will be set up to run
automatic scans but you do have the option to manually run scans on your computer.
We currently have a smart skin running that's checking for specific threats and that if we wanted to
we could force a full scan to scan the entire system for viruses.
We look at our scan history on this PC we see that luckily it has not found a virus on this computer.
If I go to settings and update I can see my virus definition download status.
You always want to make sure that your virus definitions are up today to make sure that you're protected
against the latest vulnerabilities.
So that's anti-virus.
I also have a anti-malware solution running on our lab PC.
Same concept really.
Except instead of looking for viruses it's looking specifically for malware files.
We're on a quick scan and you can see that scanning specific files on my computer.
So look for any that are considered to be malware it finds files that are determined to be malware then
the files will be quarantined and removed from the computer.
So you can see a malware transfer be detected by a anti-malware solution.
I have a PC in the lab here that's running source fires and for non-points.
So I'm just going to copy this malware to the desktop here.
You can see right away that the Sourcefire anti-malware software scan this file and determine that it
was malicious.