Background Scanner

Background Scanner definition - hacker
A feature of anti-virus software that permanently scans all files on the computer system looking for infected files. Many users still disable this feature because they do not want to accept the slight performance degradation that they seem to get when the scans are run.

See Also: Anti-virus Software; Scanner.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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