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Define malware.
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Any program or piece of code designed to intrude upon or harm a system or its resources.
Includes viruses, trojan horses, worms, and bots. |
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Define virus.
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A program that replicates itself with intent to infect more computers, through network connections or exchange of external storage devices.
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Define Trojan Horse.
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A program that disguises itself as something useful, but actually harms your system.
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Define boot sector virus.
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Position code in boot sector of a hard disk, so when the pc is turned on, the virus run in place of normal system files. Commonly spread from external storage devices to hard disks.
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Define worms.
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Programs that run independently and and travel between computers and across networks.
Transmitted by any type of file transfer. They can carry viruses. |
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Define bots.
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Program runs automatically without requiring a person to start or stop it. many bots spread through IRC. One type of bot is a virus that propagates automatically between systems.
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Define stealth virus.
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a type of virus that hides itself to prevent detection. Typically disguise themselves as legitimate programs or replace part if a legitimate programs code with their destructive code.
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Define signature scanning.
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The comparison of a file's content with known virus signatures in a signature database to determine whether a file is a virus.
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Define heuristic scanning.
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Type of virus scanning that attempts to identify viruses by discovering virus like behavior.
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RAID
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A server redundancy measure that uses shared, multiple physical or logical hard disks to ensure data integrity and availability.
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Disk mirroring.
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A RAID technique in which data
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