Question: A program that neither replicates or copies itself, but does damage or compromises the security of the computer. Which 'Computer Virus' it is?
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Correct Answer Typically it relies on someone emailing it to you, it does not email itself, it may arrive in the form of a joke program or software of some sort.
Question: Which of these is a documented hoax virus?
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Correct Answer A virus hoax is usually an email that gets mailed in chain letter fashion describing some devastating highly unlikely type of virus, you can usually spot a hoax because there's no file attachment, no reference to a third party who can validate the claim and the general 'tone' of the message.
Question: In 1983, which person was the first to offer a definition of the term 'computer virus'?
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Correct Answer 1983 Fred Cohen, while working on his dissertation, formally defines a computer virus as 'a computer program that can affect other computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved)copy of itself.'
Correct Answer Reduced Instruction Set Computer - a type of microprocessor that relies on simple instructions which can be used to build more complicated ones.
Correct Answer An Extended Capabilities Port is about 10 times faster than the old standard one, but it is used the same way a regular parallel port is.
