Computer Threats

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1. What is a Blanded Threat?

  • A piece of software that can replicate itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user
  • A threat that combines different malicious components, such as a worm, a Trojan horse and a virus
  • A self-replicating, malicious software program
  • Software that is secretly installed on a computer without the user’s consent.
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2. What is a Virus?

  • A piece of software that can replicate itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user
  • Software that is secretly installed on a computer without the user’s consent.
  • Capture and record user keystrokes the data captured is then transmitted to a remote computer
  • Software which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertisements to a computer

3. What is spam?

  • Electronic junk email.
  • A piece of software that can replicate itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user
  • Software that is secretly installed on a computer without the user’s consent.
  • A form of hacking.

4. What is Botent

  • A collection of software robots, or bots, that run automated tasks over the Internet
  • Electronic junk email.
  • A common form of spoofing in which a phony web page is produced that looks just like a legitimate web page
  • A piece of software that can replicate itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user

5. What is a Worm?

  • A piece of software that can replicate itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user
  • A self-replicating, malicious software program
  • Software which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertisements to a computer
  • Software that is secretly installed on a computer without the user’s consent.
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