… is embedded in some web pages, and when a user visits those web pages, she is given a fake virus scan that tells her she has a virus and it needs to be fixed. The “fix” is actually downloading a virus.

The real question is this: How does spyware get onto a computer system in the first place? The most common method is a …. It is also possible that when you visit a certain website spyware may download in the background while you are simply perusing the website.

a hacker might develop a small virus whose sole purpose is to infect as many computers as possible and then get each of the ........ computers to initiate a DoS attack on the target.

What is the primary way a virus scanner works?

A unique hexadecimal number that identifies your network card is called what?

With modern servers, and many servers actually being hosted in clusters or server ......., this exact illustration would not work against a modern target.

In general, there are five ways a virus scanner might scan for virus infections:

Running an Apache web server on a simple laptop running Windows 7 Home Edition, it can take about 15 machines each running about 10 different command windows ........pinging to cause a web server to stop responding to legitimate requests.