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== Uses ==

=== Uses as a Defence Mechanism ===

Some scholars{{who|date=February 2016}} think that one can use Pin tool or binary instrumentation techniques to detect malware. Unlike traditional antiviruses where scanning files is used to detect viruses, one can use tools like Pin tool to scan program's resources to detect abnormalities; thus detect malware.

=== Utilizing System Resource Monitoring ===

Unlike traditional techniques of scanning files, this approach doesn’t need to be updated regularly and uses a more efficient way to detect malware rather than burdening the processor by scanning all the files. This approach keeps track of the system’s resources used by a program and terminates the program if its resource usage goes beyond a given threshold limit. The good thing about this approach is that it can be implemented inside a program itself or in an antivirus.