Platinum Internet Security allows you to detect and eliminate several types of items which are damaging, destructive or at the least, annoying: viruses, Trojans, worms, dialers, hoaxes, spam, security risks, hacking tools, jokes, spyware, etc. These threats are recognizable and can therefore be detected through a series of special characteristics of each one. These characteristics or properties are known as virus identifiers or virus signatures.
Platinum Internet Security can locate the signature of the viruses and other threats that the program can detect. But, where are the signatures of the viruses and threats that program can detect kept? They are stored in a specific file known as the Virus Signature File. This file must always accompany the program as it cannot detect malware without this file.
New viruses appear every day. What does this mean? It means that if you have a virus signature file today, tomorrow it will not identify the viruses that have appeared over the last 24 hours, which are around 20 every day.
Panda Software updates its virus signature file DAILY, with the new signatures, strings or identifiers that appear every day (new viruses and threats). This means that every day the characteristics of every new threats that appears are included in this file. If you have the latest virus signature file, you will always be up to date and protected against the new viruses and threats that appear. EVERY DAY Panda Software makes the new virus signature file available to its registered clients. This file can be downloaded every day from the updates page on the Panda Software website. When a new virus signature file is added to the program, the antivirus is updated. This is known as an Update.
The Platinum Internet Security scan engine, configuration options, format, etc can also be changed. The program (and the virus signature file) must also be updated. This means that any changes to the program since you installed it or last updated it (from one version to a later version) must also be incorporated. This is known as an Upgrade.
Platinum Internet Security is always completely updated (whether the update is carried out manually using the corresponding options, or automatically). This means that, Platinum Internet Security carries out the Updates and Upgrades simultaneously, always being COMPLETELY updated.
We will now look at different aspects of the Platinum Internet Security update in more detail.