Server antivirus and malware protection

Understanding the difference between malware, spyware, trojans, ransomware, scareware, and viruses is very important. For example, a computer virus is the most famous type of malware. Malware is short for malicious software or code and is used as a single term to refer to a virus, spyware, worm, and so on, written to disrupt, exploit, steal data, or disable computers over networks. It is important that all users know how to recognize and protect themselves from malware in all of its forms. By nature, computer viruses and worms spread by making copies of themselves. Most of us feel that a firewall does protect us from malware, but, in reality, normal stateful (we will discuss how stateful firewalls work in detail in the Chapter 10, Firewall Placement and Detection Techniques) firewalls don't protect against malicious content on websites, but anti-malware protects servers and workstations. I would like to clarify here that next-generation firewalls come...