Question

Where does an antivirus run suspicious applications?

Antivirus software runs suspicious applications in a ________ and checks for malicious activity.

Answer 1

Antivirus programs use heuristics, by running susceptible programs or applications with suspicious code on it, within a runtime virtual environment. This keeps the vulnerable code from infecting the real world environment. Behavioural-based detection - This type of detection is used in Intrusion Detection mechanism.