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Malware - Coggle Diagram
Malware
Adware: Unwanted software designed to throw advertisements up on your screen, most often within a web browser.
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Malicious bots: Botnets cause distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS Attack). In 2016 there was a DDoS attack that affected PSN & some Xbox Live apps.
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Bot: Short for Robot, are small apps that perform automated tasks over the internet.
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Ransomware: A type of malware that prevents users from accessing their system or personal files and demands ransom payment in order to regain access.
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Rootkit: A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed and often masks its existence or the existence of other software.
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Spyware: It gathers information about you, including the sites you visit, the things you download, your usernames and passwords, payment information, and the emails you send and receive.
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Trojan Horse: In Virgil’s epic poem, The Aeneid, a clever Greek war strategist named Odysseus devises a plan to get his men inside the walled city of Troy. Instead of destroying or climbing the city’s walls, Odysseus sees another way in: with deception.
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Computer Virus: A virus is a specific type of malware that self-replicates by inserting its code into other programs.
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Worm: A worm copies of itself from computer to computer. It can replicate itself without any human interaction, and it does not need to attach itself to a software program or files in order to cause damage.
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Bugs: Bugs are a flaw that produces an undesired outcome 