Antimalware Service Executable v/s Antivirus

In today’s world maximum no of people are on the internet and that means it also become medium for hackers to hack or corrupt our system by sending various types of spam mails regarding updating of any application and attaching of fake links into mails that contains malware and such types of mails are called suspicious mails and also sending some new extensions links for outdated system and that too contains some harmful links that will harm to our system and data. If you have any issue then contact us at msmpeng.exe tech support 

According to recent studies also it suggests that such types of attack have increased in recent times very much and it tell that it will be keep on increasing by each passing day. Most recent attack was Wannacry ransomware attack.

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An another study suggest that attacks of ransomware have increased drastically from last two years and it will be keep on increasing in coming years in around the world. 

A big malware attack can cause loss to much organization like financial loss, data loss, and privacy loss by staling of data. To get rid of this type of problems keep updating your antivirus and antimalware program regularly.  To be safe from this type of attacks you can visit us at windows defender tech support 

When it comes for selection between antivirus and antimalware people get confused between these two words and falls in trouble and start searching for various websites and finish on no results. 

To give answer to this question we first need to know what is virus and what malware is? 

A virus is set of programs that have the abilities to multiples themselves and it can also cause significant amount of damage to your personal or public system by corrupting your files and also by destroying your system. 

While the malware is a term that consists of various types of Trojans, Spywares, Adware, ransomware, and it also consist of viruses too.

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So you can say that a virus is a malware but malware is not a virus. 

Antivirus detects some specific viruses not all the harmful files while malware can help us to detect all the suspicious files present in our system so that we can remove them and keep our system safe from this malwares and it also protect us during online transaction by encrypting our confidential information and keeping it safe during online transactions. Antimalware also help us to update any program automatically. 

Nowadays in Windows 10 there is a program called Antimalware Service Executable i.e. a process name as Msmpeng.exe. It is also a antimalware program that is by default provided by Windows to protect our system.