Computer Virus Alarms: 15 Warning Signals
What you'll learn
- What are some common indicators which may suggest than our computer system has been infected by virus?
- What are some common types of computer viruses?
- What a computer virus can do?
- What is the difference between computer virus and ransomware, trojan horses, worm, spyware and adware?
Requirements
- Basic Computer Skills, Basic understanding of cybersecurity principles and genuine interest in the subject matter.
Description
1. What are those some common indicators which may suggest that our computer system has been infected by virus?
2. Computer virus can change the browser settings of your computer. Comment.
3. What type of action a computer virus may take on the files stored in your computer?
4. What type of unexpected activities can a computer virus can do in respect of email or social media?
5. What are some common types of computer viruses?
6. Detecting and removing viruses is an easy job. Comment.
7. Direct action virus is a virus which directly attacks certain types of files. Which are those files?
8. What is meant by boot sector?
9. What is boot sector virus? Is it easy to remove this virus?
10. Do you agree that macro viruses do not target the underlying computer system itself? Comment.
11. It is difficult to remove polymorphic viruses. Why?
12. What is meant by multipartite virus?
13. File infector viruses target specifically target which type of files?
14. Where does resident virus saves itself?
15. What does the overwrite virus do?
16. What is meant by spacefiller virus?
17. Computer viruses are just one kind of harmful software that can cause problems. Comment.
18. Whether ransomware is a virus?
19. Is trojan a virus?
20. The spread rate of viruses is slow or high in comparison to trojan. Comment.
21. What is the main purpose of trojan horse?
22. Is worm a virus?
23. At which speed worms spread in comparison to viruses?
24. What is the function of spyware?
25. What is meant by adware?
26. Is it easy to tell to identify what type of malware has hit your computer system? Comment.
27. What type of damages a computer virus can do?
Who this course is for:
- Students, Business owners and General Public
Instructor
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Parminder Singh has worked as a legal officer and branch manager with an insurance company owned by the government of India. Partner Puneet has also worked with a government department. Both of them took voluntary retirement and have started providing online education to students. They take pride in providing quality educational services and their aim is to ensure that the students are able to understand each and every question in an easy way. Their goal is to help the leaders of tomorrow learn to succeed today.