ONE 6th FORM Firewalls and antivirus

A utility program that is used to prevent malicious software from infecting your computer.

• Anti-virus

• Firewall

• Windows 10

• MS Access

Used to check behaviour of potentially harmful software in an isolated environment.

• Sandbox

• Shellpool

• Waterbutt

• Firewall

The three options most commonly used to deal with an identified threat.

• Clean

• Quarantine

• Delete

• Attach to email

• Save onto an external device

This moves the malware to a secure location on the computer and prevents it from executing or spreading

• Quarantine

• Deletion

• Virus Signature

• Private Key encryption

A hardware device or a utility program that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and blocks any traffic that it deems suspicious.

• Firewall

• Sandbox

• Anti-virus software

• Proxy server

A form of firewall that controls the input and output of packets to an application

• Application firewall

• Utility firewall

• Application analysis system (AAS)

• Anti-virus software

Antivirus software

• searches for malicious programs and either deletes or quarantines them
• creates business documents
• makes the hard drive run more efficiently
• creates a restore point

A firewall

• controls and inspects incoming and outgoing network traffic to prevent unauthorised access
• creates business documents
• creates a restore point
• searches for malicious programs and either deletes or quarantines them

Spyware is

• software that installs itself on your computer and then gathers information about passwords, what Internet sites you visit and other confidential information.�
• used to help protect your computer against viruses.
• used to tell you how much storage space is free on your computer
• automatically deletes browsing history.

Automatic updates

• make sure your computer has the latest security patches and updates for software installed.
• creates business documents.
• shows how much storage space is left on a computer.
• transfers files to other computers.