DALTON .H 8
Terms
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- ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM
- a program that detects vruses and repairs files
- BOMB
- a destructive computer code or viruses desighned to actiivate at a SPECIFIC TIME
- commercial software
- software whos copywrite is owned by the author / software publisher
- copyright
-
protection giving the owner the exclusive right to reproduce or distribute copies of his or her own work
- encryption
- process of converting readable data into into unreadeable characters to prevent unauthourised acess
- ethics
- the moral guide lines that govern the use of a computerand info systems
- free ware
- software that is given away free of charge but whose authors still retain all rights
- hacker
- a person who secretly gains acess to ccomputers and files without permission
- hoax
- a program intended to scare users into thinking they have a computer virus
- password
- a safe guard for acess to a compuer program
- phage
- a program that modifies other programs operating systems and databases
- piracy
- the illlegal copying and distribution of software
- public domain software
- software that is not copyrighted and is free to copy and distribute
- share ware
- copyrighted software distributed free of charge on a trial basis with payment by the honor system
- trojan horse
- a virus that is disguised as a usefull peice of software
- virus
- a computer program desighned to cause damage to computer files
- worm
- a destructive computer program that bores its way thruogh a computers files or through a computers network
- browser
- a program that allows people to nVIGATE SPECIFIC TERMS
- cable modem
- high speed internet sercive that is run through your local cable
- dial up internet connection
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a network conection wjich requires that a telephone nuber be dialed to connect
- a systyem for sending and recievienig messages over a computer
- isp
- a buisness that provides acess to the internet
- modem
- a device that connexts the computer to the internet via phone line
- search engine
- a website that searches the internet fo specific info
- server
- a computer that stores info that can be acessed via the internet
- URL
- uniform resource locator