computersecurity

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. The term _____ refers to online or Internet-based illegal acts.
|a. |malicious-logic program |c. |cybercrime |
|b. |computer crime |d. |system failure |

____ 2. A _____ is a program that copies itself repeatedly in memory or on a network, using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network.
|a. |computer virus |c. |Trojan horse |
|b. |worm |d. |all of the above |

____ 3. A _____ is a malicious-logic program that hides within or looks like a legitimate program and usually is triggered by a certain condition or action.
|a. |computer virus |c. |Trojan horse |
|b. |worm |d. |all of the above |

____ 4. The _____ is the destructive event or prank a malicious-logic program is intended to deliver.
|a. |zombie |c. |cracker |
|b. |hash |d. |payload |

____ 5. Computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses deliver their payload on a computer when a user _____.
|a. |opens an infected file |
|b. |runs an infected program |
|c. |boots the computer with an infected disk in a disk drive |
|d. |all of the above |

____ 6. Some viruses are hidden in _____, which are instructions saved in an application such as a word processing or spreadsheet program.
|a. |macros |c. |cookies |
|b. |logs |d. |spikes |

____ 7. To _____ a program file, an antivirus program records information such as the file size and file creation date in a separate file.
|a. |quarantine |c. |blackout |
|b. |decrypt |d. |inoculate |

____ 8. A _____ is a separate area of a hard disk that holds an infected file until the infection can be removed.
|a. |quarantine |c. |firewall |
|b. |payload |d. |honeypot |

____ 9. The computer that a hacker uses to execute a DoS or DDoS attack, known as a _____, is completely unaware that it is being used to attack other systems.
|a. |cookie |c. |zombie |
|b. |proxy |d. |standby |