Taking into consideration the topic of my blog I would like to give some terms on data and computer security. I hope the terms I am going to give will be useful for you. So here are they, learn them and use them:
- Badware is a term used for software showing deceptive or undesired behavior, it is usually difficult to remove;
- Botnet describes a large network of computers infected with a particular Trojan;
- Dialer is a special type of malware; it dials expensive telephone service numbers without permission;
- Exploit is a term that describes a damaging program that exploits specific weak points in a piece of software;
- False positive is a term used to describe a failure in an alerting system (e.g. in an anti-malware product or intrusion detection system);
- Hoax is a false warning that is intentionally distributed and treated as true by many users;
- Riskware ("risk" + "ware") is a software that presents a possible but not definite risk for the PC after its installation;
- Zero-Day Attack - a term which describes malware on the first day of distribution;
- Zombie Computer - a computer infected with a Backdoor Trojan that listens for remote commands and carries out remotely controlled actions.
