Computer Security MCQs with Answers – Viruses, Malware – Page 2

Question 21 Computer Security and Viruses

What is the measurement of features such as fingerprints and retinal patterns, used for security access, called?

Correct answer D. Biometrics

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Question 22 Computer Security and Viruses

What is an application that collects information about a user and sends it to someone over the Internet called?

Correct answer A. Spybot

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Question 23 Computer Security and Viruses

What is a logic bomb called when it is triggered by a time-related event?

Correct answer C. Time bomb

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Question 24 Computer Security and Viruses

What eventually brings a worm to a halt?

Correct answer C. Memory or disk space

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Question 25 Computer Security and Viruses

Which type of malicious program uses computer hosts to reproduce itself?

Correct answer D. Worm

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Question 26 Computer Security and Viruses

In 1999, the widely publicised Melissa virus was what type of virus?

Correct answer D. E-mail virus

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Question 27 Computer Security and Viruses

What is a deliberately disruptive program that spreads from program to program or from disk to disk called?

Correct answer B. Virus

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Question 28 Computer Security and Viruses

What is a program called that carries out a useful task while also permitting destructive actions?

Correct answer C. Trojan horse

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Question 29 Computer Security and Viruses

What is the general term for malicious software?

Correct answer A. Malware

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Question 30 Computer Security and Viruses

What is the crime of gathering someone’s personal information and pretending to be that person called?

Correct answer A. Identity theft

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Question 31 Computer Security and Viruses

What is the common name for the crime of stealing passwords?

Correct answer A. Spoofing

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Question 32 Computer Security and Viruses

Who is the typical computer criminal?

Correct answer C. Trusted employee with no criminal record

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Question 33 Computer Security and Viruses

What is a person who uses their expertise to access other people’s computers illegally, to get information or cause damage, called?

Correct answer D. Hacker

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Question 34 Computer Security and Viruses

What makes sharing copyrighted files with your friends unethical?

Correct answer A. Sharing copyrighted files without permission breaks copyright laws

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Question 35 Computer Security and Viruses

Recovering and reading deleted or damaged files from a criminal’s computer is an example of which law enforcement speciality?

Correct answer C. Computer forensics

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Question 36 Computer Security and Viruses

All of the following are real security and privacy risks except which?

Correct answer D. Spam

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Question 37 Computer Security and Viruses

Which self-replicating program, similar to a virus, took its name from John Brunner’s 1975 science fiction novel The Shockwave Rider?

Correct answer A. Worm

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Question 38 Computer Security and Viruses

Which of the following is not antivirus software?

Correct answer D. Oracle

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Question 39 Computer Security and Viruses

Which statement best describes hackers?

Correct answer B. They break into other people's computers

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Question 40 Computer Security and Viruses

What are the coded entries used to gain access to a computer system called?

Correct answer C. Passwords

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