Malware Quiz

What is an antivirus?

• A bigger and more dangerous virus.
• Software used to duplicate viruses.
• computer software used to prevent, detect and remove malicious software. 
• A biological agent that reproduces itself inside the cells of living things.

Name a type of malware:

• Caterpillars
• Worms
• Lions
• Horses

A piece of code that can copy itself and damage the system or destroy data.

• Computer Virus
• Computer Code
• Computer Hacker
• Computer Worm

What is a computer worm?

• A parasite.
• An invertebrate animal with long bodies and no limbs.
• A despicable virus
• A malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.

What is a Trojan Horse?

• A program designed to take down the computer system while performing an inoffensive task.
• a hollow wooden statue of a horse in which the Greeks concealed themselves in order to enter Troy.
• A different type of horse.
• A chess piece.

What's Email Spoofing?

• Adding inappropriate pictures to emails.
• The creation of email messages with a forged sender address. 
• Fact checking emails.
• sending emails to people you don't know.

What is Adware?

• software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive.
• Advertisers on online pages.
• malware that is often disguised as legitimate software.
•  a form of software that downloads or displays unwanted ads when a user is online, collects marketing data and other information without the user's knowledge or redirects search requests to certain advertising websites.

Software that enables a user to obtain secret information about another computer's activities.

• Malware
• Adware
• Spyware
• Trackware

What is Trackware?

• malware that is often disguised as legitimate software.
• Software that enables a user to obtain secret information about another computer's activities.
• A software that tracks system activity,gathers information,and tracks users habits to send to a third party.
• A good type of malware.

What is Greyware?

• Software that enables a user to obtain secret information about another computer's activities.
• malicious software or code that is considered to fall in the "grey area" between normal software and a virus.
• Grey malware.
• malware that is often disguised as legitimate software.