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virus scanner
Last modified: Tuesday, May 18, 2004
(n.) A type of antivirus program that searches a system for virus signatures that have attached to executable programs and applications such as e-mail clients. A virus scanner can either search all executables when a system is booted or scan a file only when a change is made to the file as viruses will change the data in a file.
Free Virus Scanner Test If your virus scanner is set up and working properly, it should intercept the downloading of these files.