COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS COMPUTER SECURITY
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Canned meat.
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Unsolicited emails sent to many email addresses that try to get you buy something or share private information.
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A computer virus that will hack your account.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Spam is any unsolicited communication sent in bulk. Usually sent via email, spam is also distributed through text messages (SMS), social media, or phone calls. Spam messages often come in the form of harmless (though annoying) promotional emails. But sometimes spam is a fraudulent or malicious scam.
Detailed explanation-2: -Email spam, also known as junk email, refers to unsolicited email messages, usually sent in bulk to a large list of recipients.
Detailed explanation-3: -1993 First use of the term spam was for a post from USENET by Richard Depew to news. admin. policy, which was the result of a bug in a software program that caused 200 messages to go out to the news group. The term “spam” itself was thought to have come from the spam skit by Monty Python’s Flying Circus.