[ILUG] Re: inoculate files

[Vincent Cunniffe]

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