Malware is bad software, plain and simple. How does anti-malware work? Before we can tell you that, we need to backtrack a little and explain about malware. They’re faced with important questions like: what’s a virus, what’s malware, what’s the difference between antivirus and anti-malware programs, and how does any of this work?
Now that cybersecurity is being covered in the news and talked about at the dinner table, people like you (and Timmy’s mom) are realizing they need to step up and join in the fight. Mom in 1995: You’re doing what, Timmy? Making antivirus? I thought you did something with computers, not medicine!įighting cybercrime fell squarely on the shoulders of computer scientist heroes. It was not exactly a topic for discussion at the Griswold family Christmas party. For the better part of 20 years, cybersecurity remained mostly under the public awareness radar.
