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- Anitvirus Program
- A computer program that detects viruses and repairs files.
- Bomb
- a destructive code or virus designed to activate at a specific time
- Commerical software
- Software whose copyright is owned by the author/software publisher.
- Copyright
- Protection giving the owner the exclusive right to reproduce or distrubute copies of his or her work.
- Encryption
- Process of converting readable data into a unreadable characters to prevent unauthorized acess.
- Ethics
- The moral guidelines that govern the use of computers and info. systems.
- Freeware
- Software that is given away free of chrage, but whose author still retains all rights.
- Hacker
- A person whop secretly gains acess to computers and files without permission.
- Hoax
- A program intended to scare users into thinking that they have a virus.
- Password
- A safeguard for acess to a computer or to computer programs.
- Phage
- A program that modifies other programs, operating systems, and databases.
- Piracy
- The illegal copying and distrubuting of software.
- Public Domain Software
- Software that is not copyrighted and is free to copy and distrubute
- Shareware
- Copyrighted software distrubuted free of charge on a trial basis with payment by the honor system.
- Trojan Horse
- A virus that is disguised as a useful piece of software
- Virus
- A computer program designed to cause damage to computer files
- Worm
- a destuictive computer program that bores its way through a computers files or through a computers network.