Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 8. Malware Handling

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• How to handle malware
• Responding to infections that often occur
• Monitoring infectious outbreaks

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 ...