Anti-malware software provides both preventive and detective control over malicious software.Įach anti-malware solution in place tracks the version of the software and what signatures are running. The anti-malware software detects and prevents computer viruses, malware, rootkits, worms, and other malicious software from being introduced into any service systems. The use of anti-malware software is a principal mechanism for protection of Microsoft 365 assets from malicious software. Microsoft 365 includes protection mechanisms to prevent malware from being introduced into Microsoft 365 by a client or by a Microsoft 365 server. Malware consists of viruses, spyware and other malicious software. In this article Protecting customer data from malware