How to Use antivirus in a Sentence

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• Stealth The malware was designed to copy the credentials in a way that wouldn't be detected by antivirus programs.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
• Buy and download antivirus software from a reputable source such as McAfee, Norton, or Symantec.
  — Caroline Knorr, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018
• The first hospital gave him antivirus medicine and pain pills without examining him.
  — Jay Reddick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2018
• People who think their phone may be infected should install an antivirus app from Check Point, Symantec, or Lookout and scan for malicious apps.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
• Other programs let hackers log keystrokes, steal passwords, collect files, and elude antivirus programs.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 7 Mar. 2017
• When clicked, the updates infected visitors' computers with adware that was detected by just three of 65 antivirus providers.
  — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2017
• Davis also advises updating apps and using antivirus software, such as those offered by McAfee and Kaspersky.
  — Madeline Buxton, refinery29.com, 14 June 2019
• Keeping your browser updated and antivirus vigilant can help protect against it.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 22 May 2018
• People who suspect they have been infected should install antivirus protection from a name-brand provider and thoroughly scan their systems ASAP.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 July 2018
• McAfee said hackers used the tool to custom-build a malware download that was invisible to most antivirus software and hid malicious files in an image attached to a Microsoft Word document.
  — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Overall Our favorite paid antivirus software is Bitdefender Antivirus Plus.
  — Brendan Nystedt, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
• Check Microsoft’s support site for the absolute latest news, but the company previously warned that its updates for Windows 7 and Windows 10 can conflict with certain antivirus programs; users should contact those software makers about updates.
  — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• But hackers are constantly finding gaps in its protections, and consumers and businesses often fail to keep their antivirus software updated, undermining its effectiveness.
  — Jeff Stone, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2017
• This was due to the particularly invasive nature of the Meltdown fix: Microsoft found that certain antivirus products manipulated Windows' kernel memory in unsupported ways that would crash systems with the Meltdown fix applied.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2018
• While cryptojacking scripts are not necessarily actual computer viruses, most antivirus software packages also check for other types of malicious software.
  — Richard Enbody, Scientific American, 9 May 2018
• Governments big and small are stockpiling vulnerabilities and exploits in hardware, software, applications, algorithms and even security defenses like firewalls and antivirus software.
  — Nicole Perlroth, New York Times, 7 June 2016
• This includes downloading daily antivirus protection software, monitoring servers and daily logs, conducting a vulnerability assessment, and taking other steps.
  — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 13 May 2018

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