OCR L3 ICT - U1 Ethical & Operational Issues - Threats

What is a computer virus?

• A program written to cause harm to a computer
• A hardware fault which causes data to be damaged
• A fault with the CPU which means that data is lost or damaged
• None of these

Which law makes it illegal to share computer viruses

• The Virus Act
• The Internet Act
• The Computer Misuse Act
• The Data Protection Act

What does a Trojan Horse do?

• Makes the computer stop working
• Attaches inside of program
• Gets full access
• Gets full access

It is a self-replicating program that uses the network to duplicate its code to the hosts on the network

• Virus
• Worm
• Trojan
• Rootkit

Claire, a co-worker, is browsing the internet and wants to know if it's safe to enter her credit card information into a website.what do you tell her to look for?

• HTTPS://
• HTTP://
• SSL://
• TLS://

Ray, a co-worker, is concerned that his computer is infected with adware. what symptoms should you tell ray to look for to confirm his suspicions?

• Excessive pop-ups.
• pizza
• search polo
• multifactor login redirection

You receive an email in your inbox from your friend Sara. The title of the email is "this is so cool!" and inside the email is an attachment with an .exe extension.what should you do?

• delete the email
• click the attachment
• run virus scan,then click the attachment 
• call sara to see if she sent you the mail.

If you receive an email from a well-known company, but its name is misspelt in the sender’s address, you should:

• click on the link in the email to check if it’s genuine
• reply, pointing out the error
• report it as a possible phishing scam
• forward the email to a friend to check

A phishing email is one which

• requests a payment for goods you have not received
• offers you products in which you may have no interest
• encourages you to click on a link to a fraudulent website
• contains abusive and threatening language

A “data harvesting tool” is:

• illegal software used to steal passwords
• software used to gather information about individuals
• a type of input device
• a type of virus