Computer Threats

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What is a Virus?
A piece of software that can replicate itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user
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What is a Worm?
A self-replicating, malicious software program
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What is a Blanded Threat?
A threat that combines different malicious components, such as a worm, a Trojan horse and a virus
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What is spam?
Electronic junk email.
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What is Phishing?
A common form of spoofing in which a phony web page is produced that looks just like a legitimate web page
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What is Botent
A collection of software robots, or bots, that run automated tasks over the Internet
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What is a Worm?

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A self-replicating, malicious software program

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What is a Blanded Threat?

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What is spam?

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What is Phishing?

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