How Internet Security Fights Off PC Invaders
How Internet Security Fights Off PC Invaders
- 1.What is a virus?
- A.
A typically small piece of software that is attached onto other programs
- B.
Usually a large program that infects every part of your computer
- C.
A single file that is downloaded and does not spread
- 2.What ways are viruses transported?
- A.
E-mail
- B.
Music downloads
- C.
Cookies
- D.
Dirty hands
- 3.A Trojan Horse is a type of virus.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.What does a computer Worm do?
- A.
It uses computer networks and security holes to replicate itself
- B.
It is an actual worm that can get inside a computer and ruin the hardware
- C.
A virus that looks like a worm and "eats" your software
- 5.The way a virus travels through your e-mail is by an Attachment.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.What yead did the ILOVEYOU virus appear?
- A.
1990
- B.
2000
- C.
2010
- 7.A firewall is considered a Antivirus Software
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.What is one way a hacker can break into your PC?
- A.
A hacker will locate your IP address and target low security computers
- B.
The will take a picture of your computer and use that to access it later on
- C.
They will search for the highest security computer, and try to access it.
- 9.What choice(s) are the key targets for computer hackers
- A.
Computers that have not been updates
- B.
Computers with old software on it
- C.
Computers lacking in virus protection
- 10.Their is only 1 kind of anti-virus available to the public.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.All legitamate virus protection costs money
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.The best way to avoid viruses in e-mails is to not open up junk mail, and to avoid suspicious e-mail senders or subjects.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Why is all of this important for digital artists?
- A.
Viruses can damage software.
- B.
Viruses can corrupt files in your computer and destroy important documents.
- C.
Viruses can infect important OS files that shut down computers.
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