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What is a Heuristic virus?

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Heuristics means 'ruled based'. Normally, for an anti-virus product to detect the virus the virus must have been seen before, analysed and detection added to the signature update files. Heuristics are used as there are some families of viruses that continually change their appearance and it is not possible to detect every variant. Heuristics allow us to set up some rules so if it acts like a virus we can detect it, even if we have never seen the virus before.

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What is the heuristic virus?

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How do you use the word heuristic in a sentence?

One heuristic for finding your lost keys is to think of where you last saw them.


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it is a psychological heuristic that influences the way people intuitively assess probabilities. hope that helps you.


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