What is Phishing?
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Internet Phishing is a scam to deceive customers into revealing passwords, bank account numbers and other confidential details. Scam artists posed as banks and other legitimate organisations in tricking customers. |
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What is Trojan Horse?
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| A Trojan Horse is an executable program that might look useful or interesting to an unsuspecting user, but are actually harmful when executed. It can take control of the computer and do its chosen form of damage, such as ruining the file allocation table in your hard disk or even send your username/passwords and personal details to unauthorised personnel. |
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What is Spyware?
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Spyware is a broad category of malicious software intended to intercept or take partial control of a computer's operation without the user's informed consent, and subverts the computer's operation for the benefit of a third party.
Spyware programs differ from computer viruses and worms in that they do not usually self-replicate. Spyware programs exhibit many different behaviors. These include the delivery of unsolicited pop-up advertisements; the theft of personal financial information such as banking profiles; the monitoring of Web browsing activity for marketing purposes; or the re-routing of Web page requests to sites filled with advertisements profitable to the offender. |
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What is Virus?
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| Virus is a computer program that is designed to replicate itself by copying itself into the other programs stored in a computer. It may be benign or have a negative effect, such as causing a program to operate incorrectly or corrupting a computer's memory. |
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What is Computer Worm?
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| Computer Worm is a self-replicating computer program; it is self-contained and does not need to be part of another program to propagate itself. Worm is designed to exploit the file transmission capabilities found on computers. |
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