WorksheetsMalware
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the following is a possible effect of a computer virus?
Slows down your computer
Improves battery life
Increases internet speed
Protects your files
How can malware get into your device?
Email attachments
Attached to files on memory sticks
Suspicious web links
All of the these
Which of the following best describes how a worm spreads compared to a virus?
A worm can spread automatically across networks, while a virus typically needs to be executed by a user.
A worm only infects files, while a virus only infects emails.
How does trojan horse malware get into your device?
Via memory sticks.
Through email attachments.
By being disguised as legitimate software.
Through suspicious web links.
What is spyware?
It causes adverts to appear on your screen.
It is a software that deletes your files.
It slows your PC down.
It collects information from you and transfers it across the internet.
By combining the words 'malicious' and 'software', we get the word 'malware'. What does 'malicious' mean?
Malicious means delicious.
Malicious means Mali Juice.
Malicious means harmful.
None of these
Malware is designed to disrupt your device's proper functioning and sometimes to steal your information.
True
False
What is the most common way for people's computers to get infected by a virus?
Receiving a call
Installing new hardware
Downloading email attachments
None of these
I am an automated process and can take control of a computer system.
What am I?
Worm
Virus
Bot
Hacker
Select all the types of malware. (PICK 3)
Worm
Trojan Horse
WAN
Virus
Grey hat hacker
