Tiffany Goins September 1
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- Antivirus Program
- A computer program that detects viruses and repairs files.
- Bomb
- A destructive computer code or virus designed to activate at a specific time.
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Phage
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A program that modifies other programs, operatign systems, and databases
- piracy
- The illegal copying and distrubution 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 destuctive computer program that bores its way through a computers files or through a computers network
- Commercial Software
- Software whose copyright is owned by the author/software publisher
- Copyright
- Protection giving the owner the exsclusive right to reproduce or distrubute copies of his or her own work
- Encryption
- Process of converting readable data into unreadable charcters to prevent unauthorized access
- Ethics
- The moral guidelines that govern the use of computers ad information systems