From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain cunniffe.net)
Date: Fri 21 Sep 2001 - 00:29:30 IST
Silvan delaney wrote:
> hi all,
> can you tell me please what that means: to inoculate files???
Technically, it's a word from biology which means to introduce
something to a system, usually with the intention of altering
behaviour. Examples are innoculating humans with vaccines, which
is one usage of the word to indicate a pro-active defence.
In software terms, it's usually taken to mean an after-the-fact
cleaning of a viral infection, by means of scanning files for
known digital signatures and then removing them once found.
Regards,
Vin
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