What is the role of ADinf32 in providing antivirus protection?
Quite often, the term “antivirus program” is used to refer to only one class of antivirus software, antivirus scanners. Scanners can identify thousands of known viruses. Many of modern scanners are equipped with heuristic analyzers that can detect – with certain probability, sometimes relying on indirect evidence – unknown viruses. There are also other classes of antivirus software. Although simple and intuitive in use, scanners alone cannot secure your system against viral attacks. For more efficient and reliable protection, you will have to integrate different antivirus programs into a single suite. Why? Let’s try to understand. Firstly, scanners are slow and this is the most obvious disadvantage that prevents their daily use. When scanning a file, a modern scanner has to emulate CPU commands in order to be able to detect polymorphic viruses — and this is a time-consuming process. Scanning large disks may take several hours. Memory-resident scanners also adversely affect overall sys
