anti virus

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ClamTk, an open source antivirus based on theClamAV antivirus engine, originally developed by Tomasz Kojm in 2001.

Antivirus or anti-virus software (often abbreviated as AV), sometimes known as anti-malware software, is computer software used to prevent, detect and remove malicious software.

Antivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from: malicious Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), browser hijackers,ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious LSPs, dialers, fraudtools, adware andspyware.^[1] Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam,scam and phishing attacks, online identity (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced 

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