Antivirus Concepts

Question 1

Fuzzing

Answer 1

is an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid un expected or random data as input to a computer program.

Question 2

Buffer Overflow

Answer 2

is an anomaly where a program while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffers boundary and overwrite adjacent memory locations.

Question 3

Spoofing

Answer 3

is a situation in which a person or grogram successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data to gain an illegitimate advantage.

Question 4

malware

Answer 4

is software that is designed to cause damage to a computer or network.

Question 5

freeware

Answer 5

is software most offend proprietary that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.

Question 6

Ransomware

Answer 6

is a type of malware that threatens to publish the victims data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid.

Question 7

rootkit

Answer 7

is computer software designed to enable access to a computer or area of its software that is not otherwise allowed often times masks its existence in other software.

Question 8

virus

Answer 8

is a type o software that executed replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.

Question 9

spearfishing

Answer 9

is an email or electronic communication scam target towards individual, organization or business.

Question 10

Mtm

Answer 10

Man in the middle

is an Attacke where the attacker secretly relays and possible alters the communications between two parties who believes they ar directly communication with each other.

Question 11

trojan horse

Answer 11

malware that misleads use to its true intent

Question 12

spyware

Answer 12

is software that aims to gather information about person or organization sometime without there knowledge.

Question 13

addware

Answer 13

is software that generate money revenue for its developers by automatically generating only advertisement in there use interface.

Question 14

scareware

Answer 14

is a form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety or the perception of threat in order to manipulate user into buying unwanted software

Question 15

backdoor

Answer 15

is a method of secret to bypassing normal authentication or encryption in computer system or product.

Question 16

worm

Answer 16

is a standalone malware program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.

Question 17

What are the 4 types of Antivirus Detection

Answer 17

Sandbox
Data Mining
Heuristic based
Signature based

Question 18

sandbox

Answer 18

program is ran in a virtual environment and logs action the program perform instead of detecting at run time.

Question 19

data mining

Answer 19

are used to attempt to classify the behavior of file as either malicious or not.

Question 20

heuristic based

Answer 20

statically examines files for suspicious characters without and exact signature match to detect new malware

Question 21

signature based

Answer 21

used to compare two file hashes

Question 22

honey pot

Answer 22

is a computer security mechanism set to detect deflect or in some manner counteract attempt at unauthorized use of information systems.