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Malware - ✔✔Software that enters a computer system without the owner's knowledge
or consent
_______ is a general term that refers
to a wide variety of damaging or
annoying software
virus - ✔✔is malicious computer code that, like its biological counterpart, reproduces
itself on the same computer.
File infector virus
Boot virus
Companion virus (- Macro virus)
Metamorphic viruses (- Polymorphics viruses) - ✔✔Types of computer viruses
File infector virus - ✔✔Resident virus
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, Companion virus - ✔✔Macro virus
Metamorphic viruses - ✔✔Polymorphics viruses
Worm - ✔✔Program designed to take advantage of a
vulnerability in an application or an operating system in order to enter a system
can travel by itself
does not require any user action to begin its execution - ✔✔Worms are different from
viruses in two
regards:
delete files
remote control - ✔✔Actions that worms have performed
Trojan Horse (or Trojan) - ✔✔Program advertised as performing one activity that but
actually does something else
______ programs are typically executable programs that contain hidden code that attack
the computer system
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