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Data Recovery InformationMalware Quiz
by:
Joel Walsh
Most folk who think they cognize all simply about spyware, Trojans, viruses, and different malware actually don't. Take this quiz to do sure you cognize who your enemies are.
This quiz tests your noesis of five of the most common kinds of malware, the code you don't want on your computer: Trojan, worm, virus, spyware, and adware. Support in mind that there are at least seven different kinds of malware we cognize about.
The answers are set at the end of the quiz.
1. Which of the following is most likely to do your computer finish working?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
2. Which of the following is not a stand-alone program?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
3. Which of the following is most likely to send spam emails from your computer?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
4. Which of the following is lest likely to be detected with standard antivirus software?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
5. Which of the following is most likely to move with different malware?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
6. Which of the following is bundled with the peer-to-peer file-sharing software, Kazaa?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
7. Which of the following is most likely to install a "backdoor" cyberspace connection?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
8. Which of the following is most likely to be involved in a denial-of-service attack?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
9. Which of the following is the only malware in public
documented as having been employed by the FBI to bring a suspect to trial?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
10. Which of the following is most likely to steal your identity?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware
Answers:
1. c. virus. Trojans, worms, spyware, and adware all depend on your computer staying up and running. They use your computer's resources to accomplish some their designer intended, such as causation
emails, displaying advertising, or stealing information from your computer. Viruses, however, are commonly created by vandals who simply want to damage as many a computers as possible.
2. c. virus. Viruses are not stand-alone programs. Simply as biological viruses must take over the cells of their host in order to function and reproduce; computer viruses must take over one or more files of the computer on which they are stored. Trojans, worms, spyware, and adware are all stand-alone programs that can run without the help of another application, tho'
they often move bundled with different applications as a decoy, or with different malware.
3. b. worm. Worms are stand-alone programs that are often used to send spam emails, or emails containing viruses. Trojans often contain worms which are then installed for the intention of causation
spam emails, but the worms are what actually send the emails.
4. e. adware. In the strictest sense, adware is seldom
apparently banned or destructive, and so antivirus code makers have traditionally avoided treating it as malware. Adware designers are commonly large advertising companies with hundreds of millions of dollars, and they take care to insert end-user licensing agreements (EULA) that purportedly
mean that the code is installed with permission. Also, adware wish not commonly do thing
more annihilative than show advertising. Nonetheless, adware can quickly multiply on a computer, hogging system resources and deed a computer to slow down or even as malfunction. That's why most anti-spyware code makers target adware as well.
5. a. Trojan. By definition, Trojans bear different malware inside
them, simply as the mythic wooden worse bore Greek warriors. The malware can be viruses, worms, spyware, or adware.
6. e. adware, tho'
d. spyware, is as well correct. Kazaa's developers, Sharman Networks, do most of their money from the advertising shown by the enclosed
adware. The adware typically runs even as once
the Kazaa code is not in use. Sharman Networks has adamantly denied that the adware that comes with Kazaa is spyware, since, like most adware, it comes with an end-user license agreement that says the user grants permission for the code to be installed. In reality, few Kazaa users, until recently, were aware of simply how more adware was being installed on their machines (as more as a dozen or more). Plus, the adware makes monitor your cyberspace usage, and so is spyware in the strictest sense.
7. b. worm. Worms most ordinarily install a "backdoor" cyberspace connection in order to send out data (for instance, spam emails or requests to remote servers) undetected.
8. b. worm. Worms, which most ordinarily install a "backdoor" cyberspace connection on the host computer, are perfect for causation
out the millions of server requests necessary to attain a denial-of-service attack. A denial-of-service attack is once
a server is maliciously sent so many a hits that it is engulfed and cannot continue to operate.
9. a. Trojan. The Trojan "Magic Lantern" was splendidly
used to install observance code on the computer of a suspect who was later brought to trial part
on the strength of the evidence gathered.
10. e. Spyware. Spyware is malware that collects information from your computer and sends it to another remote machine, so by definition any code that steals your identity is spyware. However, spyware is often installed on your computer by a Trojan, or sent to you by another computer infected with a worm, so different kinds of malware pose an indirect threat of identity felony as well.
Simply simply about the author:
Joel Walsh writes for spyware-refuge.com simply about spyware, viruses, Trojans, adware, worms, and different malware: http://www.spyware-refuge.com?Computer Viruses[Publish this article on your website! Requirement: live link for above URL/web address w/ link text/anchor text: "Computer Viruses" OR leave this bracketed message intact.]
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