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AntimalwareScanCore identifies virus/malware types and recommends actions based on how each type invades a computer system or environment. AntimalwareScanCore categorizes malicious code, replication, and payload types as viruses/malware. When a scan detects a virus or malware threat, it takes the recommended action on the virus/malware type to protect the environment's vulnerable points.
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Trend Micro recommends using AntimalwareScanCore for users who are not familiar with the available scan actions or are not sure which scan action is suitable for a certain type of virus/malware.
Using AntimalwareScanCore provides the following benefits:
  • Time saving and easy to maintain: AntimalwareScanCore uses scan actions recommended by Trend Micro. Users do not have to spend time configuring the scan actions.
  • Updateable scan actions: Virus/malware writers constantly change the way viruses/malware attack computers. Trend Micro updates AntimalwareScanCore settings in each new pattern file to protect clients against the latest threats and the latest methods of virus/malware attacks.