Archive for December, 2008

*~final reflection~*

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

I have created a video to show what I learned in I.T.C this semester. I exported to MPEG and saved it in Mr. Bertoia’s external drive.

phishing (virus)

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Phishing
What’s phishing?
The term phishing is from the word ‘fishing’ because fishers in the internet throws the fishing rode to the other end to hook information just like what the fishers in real life do, throwing the fishing rode to hook up fish. Phishing has started around the late 1980s and it is very hard [...]

computer worms (virus)

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

-Computer Worms
What are computer worms?
Computer worms are reproducing programs that runs without a host programthat travels across network connections. Computer worms differs from computer viruses by the fact that they can run itself, independently without a hosting program.
How do we get infected?
We can get infected by clicking on any form of attachment or link that [...]

computer virus

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

What are viruses?
Viruses small software programs which
purpose is to spread from a computer to another and to interfere the computer from operating properly. Viruses corrupt or delete data on computers or erase everything on a hard disk. It is usually spread by attachments in emails, IMs (instant messages) or downloads on Internet.
How do we get [...]

Trojan Horse (virus)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Trojan horse:
Q: What is a Trojan horse?
A: Trojan horse is a typical virus that breaks the security of programs. Trojan horse might erase the data your disk and a stranger might be able to control your disk. It also ruins the file allocation table on the hard disk. The name is from the ‘Greek mythology’ [...]