Introduction

First, it's important to understand a little bit more about the difference between antimalware and antivirus.

A virus is a written piece of code made to copy itself to the computer with the intention of doing harm, such as destroying data or corrupting the Operating System. It has been the most common threat to computer systems for the last few decades. Antivirus security products and the security patching of Windows got very good at detecting and removing this kind of malicious code from files.

So it was only natural that more and more advanced and devious ways of doing damage and manipulating computers were developed. There came an increasing need for something that could detect all of these different kinds of attacks to a computer.

Over time, software known as antimalware was developed to deal with Trojans, Rootkits, Spyware, Exploits, Worms, Adware, and last but not least viruses.

System Center Endpoint Protection or Defender will scan for and detect all of these and remove...