General Vocabulary Flashcards

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What means legitimate ?

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It means,ok,legal,or thik

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What means countermeasure against viruses . ?

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Steps to prevent system from malware.

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Who create a first virus ?

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The first virus that attacked MS-DOC is called Brain and was written by two brothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan in 1986. The virus infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT) file system

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How does a antivirus system detects a virus ?

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It checks the signature of a virus,every virus has unique signature .

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What is the Difference Between DOS anf DoS

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DOS means Disk Operating System
and DoS means Deniel of Services
notice capital O and Small o

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What is a Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack ?

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A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a type of cyber attack in which a malicious actor aims to render a computer or other device unavailable to its intended users by interrupting the device’s normal functioning.

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