COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
TYPES OF THREATS AND ATTACKS
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Question
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A colleague has been urging you to download a new animated screensaver he has been using for several weeks. While he is showing you the program, the cursor on his screen moves on its own and a command prompt window opens and quickly closes. You can’t tell what if anything was displayed in that command prompt window. Your colleague says “It’s been doing that for a while, but it’s no big deal.” Based on what you’ve seen, you suspect the animated screensaver is really what type of malware
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A Worm
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A Trojan
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Ransomware
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Adware
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -7. What type of malware is adware typically classified as? Adware is typically classified as a type of potentially unwanted program, or PUP. Backdoors and rootkits are definitely malicious, whereas adware may simply be unwanted and annoying.
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