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Malware
1. What is malware? Software that is intended to damage or disable computer systems. 2. How did it get its name? From the term malisicious software. 3. What does it do? Goes into your computer and causes significant damageto it without your knowledge or consent; log your keystrokes, steal your passwords, observe your browing choices, spawn pop windows, send you a targeted email, redirect your web browser to fishing pages report your personal info to distant servers and serve up pornography. 4. What types are there? Virusus, worms, trojans , adware and spyware.

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5. Why do people create it? Make profit, black market exploitation 6. What is a zombie computer? What can they be told to do? a computer connected to the internet that is bring controlled by someone else 7. What is malwares pathway to your computer? websites that contains viruses that are allowed to be controlled 8. What is the difference between a virus and a worm? a virus is a computer program that needs people to tell it what to do a worm just spreads by itself 9. Explain each of these types of malware: trojan horse; rootkit; backdoor trojan horse is 10. Which operating system is more vulnerable -- Mac OSX or MS Windows? Ms windows because it has a weak software 11. What strategies are used to combat malware? install an anti virus program 12. What is a computer disinfectant? a security program that gets rid of these viruses and such. FBI Moneypak Ransomware 1. What is it? Why is it called ransomware? Ransomware disguise as FBI that uses trojans to lock computer systems. Beause you have to pay a ransom to createof the malware in order to release the restrictions of the computer. 2. How do you get it? by clicking on a random pop up by being on the internet 3. Who created it? Why? a hacker to get money off of people 4. How do you know if your computer has been infected with it? Causes the computer system to lock, is directed to fraudulent screen. Fraudulent FBI pages detail an alert message. 5. What should you do to get rid of it? Get a malware removal system or manually remove it, restore/recover computer, flash drive option 6. How can you avoid getting it in the future?

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7. What are two examples of reliable, free anti-virus software downloads that may work to disinfect your computer from this malware? Northon AVG Avast Immunet