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Detection Tools

Detection tools detect the existence of a virus on a system. These tools perform detection at a variety of points in the system. The virus may be actively executing, residing in memory, or stored in executable code. The virus may be detected before execution, during execution, or after execution and replication.



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Fri Mar 11 21:26:02 EST 1994