Anti-virus software is a program or set of programs that are designed to prevent, search for, detect, and remove viruses, and other forms of malware such as\u00a0worms, trojans, adware, and more.<\/p>\n
As our world continues to become ever more connected, anti-virus remains critical for\u00a0users seeking to keep their devices protected. However, it’s vital that the security one chooses is always up-to-date with automatic updates, as a device\u00a0without proper security\u00a0software may\u00a0be infected within minutes of connecting to the internet.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, because today’s threats are so sophisticated and are constantly being updated, traditional cybersecurity\u00a0companies are incapable of updating their detection tools fast enough to handle many of these threats, particularly the ones that are not yet ‘known’ by the anti-virus software.<\/p>\n
Pretty much all of today’s anti-virus solutions offer a host of features and are able to perform the following task:<\/p>\n
However, while these tactics were enough to keep a device safe two or three years ago, malware has evolved at too rapid a pace for these features to remain the only thing a user needs to stay protected.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the influx of more sophisticated phishing attacks and polymorphic malware capable of replicating and altering itself enough to not be caught by ‘traditional’ security solutions, many threats slip by, undetected. Today, an effective security solution is one that can\u00a0stay ahead of these threats by automatically updating, monitoring unknown files to ensure they’re not making changes to your devices, protecting against phishing attacks and other online threats, and having the ability to roll-back any changes a file makes on a user’s device. In other words, users need to use smarter cybersecurity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anti-virus software is a program or set of programs that are designed to prevent, search for, detect, and remove viruses, and other forms of malware such as\u00a0worms, trojans, adware, and more. As our world continues to become ever more connected, anti-virus remains critical for\u00a0users seeking to keep their devices protected. However, it’s vital that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":18441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2985],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3613,3611,3617,3631,3615,3517,3619,3477,3543,3621,3625,3623,3479,3467,3629,3481,3627,3633,3529,3471],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25871,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions\/25871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19391"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}