SSC
COMPUTER
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Phishing
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Spam
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Malware
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Malware. See what the community says and unlock a badge.
Detailed explanation-2: -Malicious email attachments are an increasingly dangerous threat to corporate security. Disguised as documents, voicemails, e-faxes or PDFs, malicious email attachments are designed to launch an attack on the victim’s computer when the attachment is opened.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since many email systems automatically block obvious malicious programs, attackers conceal a piece of software called an exploit inside other types of commonly emailed files – Microsoft Word documents, a ZIP or RAR files, Adobe PDF documents, or even image and video files.
Detailed explanation-4: -Executables. Common file extensions: .exe. Scripts. Common file extensions: .js, .vbs, .php, .asp. Documents. Common file extensions: .doc, .xls, .ppt, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf. Archive files. Disk images.