COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
COMPUTER VIRUSES MALWARE AND HACKING
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software that automatically displays or downloads advertising material (often unwanted) when a user is online.
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Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source.
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A virus that is designed to frighten people about a nonexistent virus
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a buffer overflow, or bufferoverrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer’s boundary and overwrites adjacent memory locations. This is a special case of the violation of memory safety.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Adware is any software application in which an advertising banner or other advertising material displays or downloads while a program is running. The ads are delivered through pop-up windows or bars that appear on the program’s user interface.
Detailed explanation-2: -Adware, or advertising supported software, is software that displays unwanted advertisements on your computer. Adware programs will tend to serve you pop-up ads, can change your browser’s homepage, add spyware and just bombard your device with advertisements.
Detailed explanation-3: -Adware is an “advertising-supported software” that displays ads on websites and collects data on a user’s behavior for marketing purposes. Adware generates revenue for a company through display and pay-per-click advertising. Not all adware is malware.