Viruses
1. What is a virus?
A virus is a bug that infects the computer and gets passed on from computer to computer, like a normal virus.
2. What is an email virus?
An email virus is a virus that gets passed from computer to computer via emails.
3. What is a worm?
A worm is a computer program that has the ability to copy itself from machine to machine.
4. What is a Trojan horse?
A Trojan horse is a program that sounds good but when you download it and run it, it will do something bad like erasing your disk. So you think you are getting a cool game, but it wipes out your system.
5. What is spyware and what does it do?
Spyware is a category of computer programs that attach themselves to your operating system in various ways. They can suck the life out of your computer's processing power. They are designed to track your Internet habits, nag you with unwanted sales offers or generate traffic for their host Web site.
6. What are rogue diallers and how do they work? Rogue Diallers are pieces of software secretly placed on your computer by some of the people who use the internet. When you connect to the internet, these diallers quietly disconnect you and dial a premium-rate phone number instead. So when you think you are connected to the internet as usual, you are in fact running up mammoth telephone bills on your account.
7. What is anti-virus software program used for? Give three examples of anti-virus software.
An anti-virus program is used for keeping viruses out of your computer and deleting any that are there before they get to bad. Three anti-virus programs are; Norton, McAfee, Panda.
8. What is a firewall and why should our computers have one?
A firewall is a barrier to keep you from accessing sites that may have spyware or to protect your computer from hackers on the internet. We should have them to protect our computers from getting viruses of the internet or to stop people entering bad sites.
A virus is a bug that infects the computer and gets passed on from computer to computer, like a normal virus.
2. What is an email virus?
An email virus is a virus that gets passed from computer to computer via emails.
3. What is a worm?
A worm is a computer program that has the ability to copy itself from machine to machine.
4. What is a Trojan horse?
A Trojan horse is a program that sounds good but when you download it and run it, it will do something bad like erasing your disk. So you think you are getting a cool game, but it wipes out your system.
5. What is spyware and what does it do?
Spyware is a category of computer programs that attach themselves to your operating system in various ways. They can suck the life out of your computer's processing power. They are designed to track your Internet habits, nag you with unwanted sales offers or generate traffic for their host Web site.
6. What are rogue diallers and how do they work? Rogue Diallers are pieces of software secretly placed on your computer by some of the people who use the internet. When you connect to the internet, these diallers quietly disconnect you and dial a premium-rate phone number instead. So when you think you are connected to the internet as usual, you are in fact running up mammoth telephone bills on your account.
7. What is anti-virus software program used for? Give three examples of anti-virus software.
An anti-virus program is used for keeping viruses out of your computer and deleting any that are there before they get to bad. Three anti-virus programs are; Norton, McAfee, Panda.
8. What is a firewall and why should our computers have one?
A firewall is a barrier to keep you from accessing sites that may have spyware or to protect your computer from hackers on the internet. We should have them to protect our computers from getting viruses of the internet or to stop people entering bad sites.