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What is Heuristic Scanning? Heuristic Scanning is a antivirus technology method to detect new, unknown viruses or Malware that not yet been identified or in the database of antivirus. Only some antiviruses can do this type of scan, the majority are only able to detect  known viruses. It based on examination of a virus and look on the sequence or sequences of instruction that differentiate the virus from normal programs Pros and cons of heuristic analysis  The advantage of heuristic scan is it able to detect unknown viruses based on the previous virus that have common characteristic and shared by the different virus. However, it have to use a lot of time and processing resource of computer to scan the file/virus, it also easily increase the number of false positives software. The information provided by the heuristic scan is not 100% , this is because the data generated uses a complex and sophisticated methods which normally hard to interpret, so if you found that...