{"id":200,"date":"2015-09-12T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=200"},"modified":"2015-09-12T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:39:43","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-antivirus-and-anti-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/whats-the-difference-between-antivirus-and-anti-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between antivirus and anti-malware?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;No one tool can catch everything, which is why security experts recommend a layered approach. It&#8217;s better to have more than one set of eyes looking at threats from different angles. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the old saying &#8216;jack of all trades, master of none,'&#8221; says Samuel Lindsey, Malwarebytes user advocate. &#8220;That&#8217;s how I see all-in-one security suites; they just can&#8217;t detect everything on any given day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Your best bet is to use an antivirus program to catch the classic threats and an anti-malware program, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.org\/antimalware\/premium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium<\/a>, for the newer, more advanced dangers. And you needn&#8217;t worry about the impact of running two real-time scanners at the same time on your machine&#8217;s performance\u2014most anti-malware software is lightweight, easy-to-run, and designed to work alongside antivirus.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.org\/articles\/antivirus-vs-antimalware\/?utm_source=double-opt-in&amp;utm_medium=email-internal-b2c&amp;utm_campaign=EM-sep2015newsletter&amp;utm_content=read-more-main-story\">What&#8217;s the difference between antivirus and anti-malware?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No one tool can catch everything, which is why security experts recommend a layered approach. It&#8217;s better to have more than one set of eyes looking at threats from different angles. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the old saying &#8216;jack of all trades, master of none,&#8217;&#8221; says Samuel Lindsey, Malwarebytes user advocate. &#8220;That&#8217;s how I see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-security-2","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}