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This glossary contains many of the terms you will find throughout the SpywareRemove.com website.
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V
variant, variants
Modifications of previously released viruses. Variants can be identified by a letter-based extension after the virus name e.g., W32/Virus.a, W32/Virus.b, etc. If more than 26 variants are identified within one virus family, a two-letter extension is applied: e.g., W32/Virus.aa, W32/Virus.ab, etc.
VBS
It is a method of distributing viruses by using Visual Basic Scripting. It does not cause a problem, unless Internet Explorer 5 or Outlook98 or higher is used on the computer.
virus
A destructive program or code that can copy itself and infect a computer, boot sector, partition sector, a document that support a macros, by penetrating or attaching itself to the medium. Viruses can only copy themselves, but anyway they are able to cause damage.
virus definition (DAT) files
See DAT files.
virus-scanning engine
A mechanism that carries out anti-virus scanning.
vulnerability
Security expose of a computer, operating system, or a software application which may cause system crash, information loss or allow others to use systems for their own purposes.
Vulnerability Assessment (VA)
Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is the process in a system identifying security deficiencies related to vulnerability scan results. See also Vulnerability Management (VM) and vulnerability scan, vulnerability scanning.
Vulnerability Management (VM)
Vulnerability Management (VM) is a process in a system which decides whether to remove or tolerate on risk and cost based vulnerabilities. See also Vulnerability Assessment (VA).
vulnerability scan, vulnerability scanning
Vulnerability scan is a program which scans hosts and networks of vulnerabilities. See also Vulnerability Assessment (VA).
