Malicious Software

Malicious software aims to trick users into revealing sensitive personal data.

• True

• False

Keyware captures keystrokes on a compromised system.

• True

• False

Metamorphic code is software that can be shipped unchanged to a heterogeneous collection of platforms and execute with identical semantics.

• True

• False

A virus that attaches to an executable program can do anything that the program is permitted to do.

• True

• False

It is not possible to spread a virus via a USB stick.

• True

• False

A logic bomb is the event or condition that determines when the payload is activated or delivered.

• True

• False

Many forms of infection can be blocked by denying normal users the right to modify programs on the system.

• True

• False

A macro virus infects executable portions of code.

• True

• False

E-mail is a common method for spreading macro viruses.

• True

• False

In addition to propagating, a worm usually carries some form of payload.

• True

• False