Malware

Question 1

Malware

Answer 1

Software designed to infiltrate a computer system and possibly damage it without the user’s knowledge or consent

Question 2

Viruses

Answer 2

Malicious Code that runs on a machine without the user’s knowledge and infects the computer when executed

Question 3

Virus Type - Boot Sector

Answer 3

Viruses that are stored in the first sector of a hard drive and are loaded into memory upon boot up

Question 4

Virus Type - Macro

Answer 4

Virus is embedded into a document and is executed when the document is open by the user

Question 5

Virus Type - Program

Answer 5

Virus infected executable and application

Question 6

Virus Type - Multipartite

Answer 6

Virus that combines boot and program viruses to first attach itself to the boot sector and system files before attacking other files of the computer

Question 7

Virus Type - Encrypted

Answer 7

Virus using encryption to hide itself from virus scanners

Question 8

Virus Type - Polymorphic

Answer 8

Advanced version of an encrypted virus that changes itself every time it is executed by altering the decryption module to avoid detection

Question 9

Virus Type - Metamorphic

Answer 9

Virus that is able to rewrite itself entirely before in attempts to infect a file (advanced from of polymorphic)

Question 10

Virus Type - Stealth

Answer 10

Virus that uses multiple techniques to avoid detection by anti-virus software

Question 11

Virus Type - Armored

Answer 11

Viruses have a layer of protection to confuse a program or person analyzing it

Question 12

Virus Type - Hoax

Answer 12

Comes in the form of a pop-up, website or phone call that is trying to trick the user into infecting their machine